Austroglanis

Taxobox
name = Austroglanididae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Siluriformes
superfamilia = Bagroidea
familia = Austroglanididae
familia_authority = Mo, 1991
genus = "Austroglanis"
genus_authority = Skelton, Risch & de Vos, 1984
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="A. barnardi"
"A. gilli"
"A. sclateri"

"Austroglanis" is the only genus in the catfish family Austroglanididae. This family was split off from the Bagridae catfish family.cite book | title = Fishes of the World | last = Nelson | first = Joseph, S. | publisher = John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | year = 2006 | id = ISBN 0471250317] All three species of catfishes in the family Austroglanididae are endemic to southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia), and all three are threatened.cite journal|url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/x73g7322414m3382/fulltext.pdf|title=Threatened fishes of the world: "Austroglanis barnardi" (Skelton, 1981) (Austroglanididae)|first=Michael N.|last=Bruton|journal=Environmental Biology of Fishes|volume=45|pages=382|year=1996|format=PDF|doi=10.1007/BF00002530]

These fish have three pairs of barbels (they lack nasal barbels). They have strong dorsal and pectoral fin spines. The adipose fin is small.

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