Phractura

Taxobox
name = "Phractura"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Siluriformes
familia = Amphiliidae
subfamilia = Doumeinae
genus = "Phractura"
genus_authority = Boulenger, 1900
type_species = "Peltura bovei"
type_species_authority = Perugia, 1892
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.
synonyms =
*"Peltura" Perugia, 1892
*"Paraphractura Boulenger, 1902

"Phractura" is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Amphiliidae.

"Phractura" species are elongated fish with a long caudal peduncle and bony scutes on the sides, back, and belly.cite encyclopedia|url=http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/Fau_trop/36567.pdf|title=Amphiliidae (French)|first=Paul H.|last=Skelton|encyclopedia=Faune des poissons d'eaux douces et saumâtres d'Afrique de l'Ouest|volume=Tome 2|pages=450-467|date=1992|publisher=Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique and O.R.S.T.O.M., Paris, France, 902|format=PDF] "Phractura" species are often associated with vegetation. "Phractura" species, like other genera in Doumeinae, have a mouth modified into a suckermouth that allows it to clean to the objects and scrape the surface of the substrate.cite journal|title=On the anatomy and function of the cephalic structures in "Phractura" (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae), with comments on some striking homoplasies occurring between the Doumeinae and some loricaroid catfishes|first=Rui|last=Diogo|coauthors=Oliveira, Claudia; Chardon, Michel|journal=Belg. J. Zool.|volume=130|issue=1|pages=117–130|date=January 2000|format=PDF|unused_data=http://www.naturalsciences.be/institute/associations/rbzs_website/bjz/back/pdf/BJZ%20130(2)/Volume%20130(2),%20pp.%20117-130.pdf]

pecies

Species list according to Ferraris, 2007.cite journal|url=http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf|title=Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types|first=Carl J., Jr.|last=Ferraris|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1418|pages=1–628|year=2007|format=PDF]

*"Phractura ansorgii" Boulenger, 1902
*"Phractura bovei" (Perugia, 1892)
*"Phractura brevicauda" Boulenger, 1911
*"Phractura clauseni" Daget & Stauch, 1963
*"Phractura fasciata" Boulenger, 1920
*"Phractura gladysae" Pellegrin, 1931
*"Phractura intermedia" Boulenger, 1911
*"Phractura lindica" Boulenger, 1902
*"Phractura longicauda" Boulenger, 1903
*"Phractura macrura" Poll, 1967
*"Phractura scaphyrhynchura" (Vaillant, 1886)
*"Phractura stiassny" Skelton, 2007cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01578p068.pdf|title=New species of the amphiliid catfish genera "Amphilius", "Doumea" and "Phractura" and the taxonomy of "Paramphilius" from West Central Africa (Siluriformes, Amphiliidae)|first=Paul H.|last=Skelton|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1578|pages=41–68|year=2007|format=PDF]
*"Phractura tenuicauda" (Boulenger, 1902)

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