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  • proper noun A taxonomic family within the order Siluriformes — Asian catfish.

Etymologies

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Sisora +‎ -idae

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Examples

  • Their paper is entitled Pseudecheneis maurus, a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Central Vietnam.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • JunXing outline in their paper "Two new species of the sisorid Genus Oreoglanis Smith from Yunnan, China (Teleostei: Sisoridae)"

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • The three most diverse of the 30 different families represented here are minnows and carps (Cyprinidae; 93 species and 11 endemics), river loaches (Balitoridae; 47 species and 14 endemics), and sisorid catfishes (Sisoridae; 34 species and four endemics).

    Biological diversity in the Himalayas 2008

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