Es troba a l'Àfrica subsahariana i a la conca del riu Nil.[4]
Algunes de les seues espècies són emprades com a aliments per als humans o com a peixos ornamentals dins d'aquaris[5]
- Synodontis acanthomias (Boulenger, 1899)[6]
- Synodontis acanthoperca (Friel & Vigliotta, 2006)[7]
- Synodontis afrofischeri (Hilgendorf, 1888)[8]
- Synodontis alberti (Schilthuis, 1891)[9]
- Synodontis albolineata (Pellegrin, 1924)[10]
- Synodontis angelica (Schilthuis, 1891)[9]
- Synodontis annectens (Boulenger, 1911)[11]
- Synodontis ansorgii (Boulenger, 1911)[12]
- Synodontis arnoulti (Roman, 1966)[13]
- Synodontis aterrima (Poll & Roberts, 1968)[14]
- Synodontis bastiani (Daget, 1948)[15]
- Synodontis batesii (Boulenger, 1907)[16]
- Synodontis brichardi (Poll, 1959)[17]
- Synodontis budgetti (Boulenger, 1911)[18]
- Synodontis camelopardalis (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis caudalis (Boulenger, 1899)[6]
- Synodontis caudovittata (Boulenger, 1901)[20]
- Synodontis centralis (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis clarias (Linnaeus, 1758)[21]
- Synodontis comoensis (Daget & Lévêque, 1981)[22]
- Synodontis congica (Poll, 1971)[23]
- Synodontis contracta (Vinciguerra, 1928)[24]
- Synodontis courteti (Pellegrin, 1906)[25]
- Synodontis cuangoana (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis decora (Boulenger, 1899)[6]
- Synodontis dekimpei (Paugy, 1987)[26]
- Synodontis depauwi (Boulenger, 1899)[6]
- Synodontis dhonti (Boulenger, 1917)[27]
- Synodontis dorsomaculatus (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis eupterus (Boulenger, 1901)[28]
- Synodontis fascipinna (Nichols & La Monte, 1953)[29]
- Synodontis filamentosa (Boulenger, 1901)[20]
- Synodontis flavitaeniatus (Boulenger, 1919)[30]
- Synodontis frontosa (Vaillant, 1895)[31]
- Synodontis fuelleborni (Hilgendorf & Pappenheim, 1903)[32]
- Synodontis gambiensis (Günther, 1864)[33]
- Synodontis geledensis (Günther, 1896)[34]
- Synodontis gobroni (Daget, 1954)[35]
- Synodontis grandiops (Wright & Page, 2006)[36]
- Synodontis granulosa (Boulenger, 1900)[37]
- Synodontis greshoffi (Schilthuis, 1891)[9]
- Synodontis guttata (Günther, 1865)[38]
- Synodontis haugi (Pellegrin, 1906)[39]
- Synodontis ilebrevis (Wright & Page, 2006)[40]
- Synodontis iturii (Steindachner, 1911)[41]
- Synodontis katangae (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis khartoumensis (Gideiri, 1967)[42]
- Synodontis koensis (Pellegrin, 1933)[43]
- Synodontis kogonensis (Musschoot & Lalèyè, 2008)[44]
- Synodontis laessoei (Norman, 1923)[45]
- Synodontis leoparda (Pfeffer, 1896)[46]
- Synodontis leopardina (Pellegrin, 1914)[47]
- Synodontis levequei (Paugy, 1987)[48]
- Synodontis longirostris (Boulenger, 1902)[49]
- Synodontis longispinis (Pellegrin, 1930)[50]
- Synodontis lucipinnis (Wright & Page, 2006)[40]
- Synodontis lufirae (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis macrophthalmus (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis macrops (Greenwood, 1963)[51]
- Synodontis macropunctata (Wright & Page, 2008)[52]
- Synodontis macrostigma (Boulenger, 1911)[53]
- Synodontis macrostoma (Skelton & White, 1990)[54]
- Synodontis manni (De Vos, 2001)[55]
- Synodontis marmoratus (Lönnberg, 1895)[56]
- Synodontis matthesi (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis melanoptera (Boulenger, 1903)[57]
- Synodontis membranaceus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809)
- Synodontis multimaculatus (Boulenger, 1902)[49]
- Synodontis multipunctatus (Boulenger, 1898)[58]
- Synodontis nebulosus (Peters, 1852)[59]
- Synodontis ngouniensis (De Weirdt, Vreven & Fermon, 2008)[60]
- Synodontis nigrita (Valenciennes, 1840)[61]
- Synodontis nigriventris (David, 1936)[62]
- Synodontis nigromaculata (Boulenger, 1905)[63]
- Synodontis njassae (Keilhack, 1908)[64]
- Synodontis notatus (Vaillant, 1893)
- Synodontis nummifer (Boulenger, 1899)[6]
- Synodontis obesus (Boulenger, 1898)[65]
- Synodontis ocellifer (Boulenger, 1900)[66]
- Synodontis omias (Günther, 1864)[67]
- Synodontis ornatipinnis (Boulenger, 1899)[68]
- Synodontis ornatissima (Gosse, 1982)[69]
- Synodontis ouemeensis (Musschoot & Lalèyè, 2008)[70]
- Synodontis pardalis (Boulenger, 1908)[71]
- Synodontis petricola (Matthes, 1959)[72]
- Synodontis pleurops (Boulenger, 1897)[73]
- Synodontis polli (Gosse, 1982)[69]
- Synodontis polyodon (Vaillant, 1895)[74]
- Synodontis polystigma (Boulenger, 1915)[75]
- Synodontis pulcher (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis punctifer (Daget, 1965)[76]
- Synodontis punctulata (Günther, 1889)[77]
- Synodontis rebeli (Holly, 1926)[78]
- Synodontis resupinatus (Boulenger, 1904)[79]
- Synodontis ricardoae (Seegers, 1996)[80]
- Synodontis robbianus (Smith, 1875)[81]
- Synodontis robertsi (Poll, 1974)[82]
- Synodontis ruandae (Matthes, 1959)[83]
- Synodontis rufigiensis (Bailey, 1968)[84]
- Synodontis rukwaensis (Hilgendorf & Pappenheim, 1903)[32]
- Synodontis schall (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)[85]
- Synodontis schoutedeni (David, 1936)[62]
- Synodontis serpentis (Whitehead, 1962)[86]
- Synodontis serrata (Rüppell, 1829)[87]
- Synodontis smiti (Boulenger, 1902)[49]
- Synodontis soloni (Boulenger, 1899)[68]
- Synodontis sorex (Günther, 1864)[88]
- Synodontis steindachneri (Boulenger, 1913)[89]
- Synodontis tanganyicae (Borodin, 1936)[90]
- Synodontis tessmanni (Pappenheim, 1911)[91]
- Synodontis thamalakanensis (Fowler, 1935)[92]
- Synodontis thysi (Poll, 1971)[19]
- Synodontis tourei (Daget, 1962)[93]
- Synodontis unicolor (Boulenger, 1915)[75]
- Synodontis vaillanti (Boulenger, 1897)
- Synodontis vanderwaali (Skelton & White, 1990)[94]
- Synodontis velifer (Norman, 1935)[95]
- Synodontis vermiculata (Daget, 1954)[35]
- Synodontis victoriae (Boulenger, 1906)[96]
- Synodontis violacea (Pellegrin, 1919)[97]
- Synodontis voltae (Roman, 1975)[98]
- Synodontis waterloti (Daget, 1962)[99]
- Synodontis woleuensis (Friel & Sullivan, 2008)[100]
- Synodontis woosnami (Boulenger, 1911)[53]
- Synodontis xiphias (Günther, 1864)[67]
- Synodontis zambezensis (Peters, 1852)[59]
- Synodontis zanzibarica (Peters, 1868)[101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108]
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