Galeichthys

Galeichthys is a genus of sea catfishes in the family Ariidae, the only genus in the subfamily Galeichthyinae. It includes four^[1] predominantly marine species distributed in Southern Africa and northwestern South America:^[2]

• Galeichthys ater Castelnau, 1861 (Black sea catfish)
• Galeichthys feliceps Valenciennes, 1840 (White barbel), the type species^[3]
• Galeichthys peruvianus Lütken, 1874 (Peruvian sea catfish)
• Galeichthys trowi Kulongowski, 2010

Galeichthys
Galeichthys feliceps
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Ariidae
Subfamily:	Galeichthyinae
Genus:	Galeichthys Valenciennes in G. Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840
Type species
Galeichthys feliceps Valenciennes, 1840

Those fish have three pairs of barbels: a pair of fleshy and cylindrical maxillary barbels and two pairs of mental barbels. The base of the adipose fin is as long as the base of the anal fin.

The name Galeichthys comes from Greek galeos 'shark' and ichthys 'fish'.^[4]

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Galeichthys". FishBase. December 2011 version.
2. Marceniuk, Alexandre P.; Menezes, Naércio A. (2007). "Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1416: 1–126. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1416.1.1.
3. Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Galeichthys feliceps". FishBase. April 2016 version.