Ictaluroidea

The Ictaluroidea is a superfamily of catfish.^[2][3] As of 2000, the position of the Ictaluroidea within the Siluriformes order is not certain.^[4]

Ictaluroidea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Suborder:	Siluroidei
Superfamily:	Ictaluroidea T. N. Gill, 1861[1]

Taxonomy

This superfamily consists of the following families:^[5]

• Family Ictaluridae, native to North America
• Family Cranoglanididae

References

1. "Superfamily Ictaluroidea - Nomenclature & Taxonomy - the Taxonomicon".
2. Joseph S. Nelson, , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006
3. Lundberg, John G.; Luckenbill, Kyle R.; Babu, K.K. Subhash; Ng, Heok Hee (2014). "A tomographic osteology of the taxonomically puzzling catfish Kryptoglanis shajii(Siluriformes, Siluroidei,incertae sedis): Description and a first phylogenetic interpretation". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 163: 1–41. doi:10.1635/053.163.0101.
4. Joseph S. Nelson, Hans-Peter Schultze, Mark V. H. Wilson, , 2010]
5. Sullivan, John P.; Lundberg, John G.; Hardman, Michael (December 2006). "A phylogenetic analysis of the major groups of catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) using rag1 and rag2 nuclear gene sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 41 (3): 636–662. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.044. PMID 16876440.