# Synodontis

Synodontis és un gènere de peixos de la família dels mochòkids i de l'ordre dels siluriformes.

## Morfologia

* És format per espècies de mida petita o mitjana

## Distribució geogràfica

Es troba a l'Àfrica subsahariana i a la conca del riu Nil.

## Observacions

Algunes de les seues espècies són emprades com a aliments per als humans o com a peixos ornamentals dins d'aquaris

## Taxonomia

* Synodontis acanthomias (Boulenger, 1899)
* Synodontis acanthoperca (Friel & Vigliotta, 2006)
* Synodontis afrofischeri (Hilgendorf, 1888)
* Synodontis alberti (Schilthuis, 1891)
* Synodontis albolineata (Pellegrin, 1924)
* Synodontis angelica (Schilthuis, 1891)
* Synodontis annectens (Boulenger, 1911)
* Synodontis ansorgii (Boulenger, 1911)
* Synodontis arnoulti (Roman, 1966)
* Synodontis aterrima (Poll & Roberts, 1968)
* Synodontis bastiani (Daget, 1948)
* Synodontis batesii (Boulenger, 1907)
* Synodontis brichardi (Poll, 1959)
* Synodontis budgetti (Boulenger, 1911)
* Synodontis camelopardalis (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis caudalis (Boulenger, 1899)
* Synodontis caudovittata (Boulenger, 1901)
* Synodontis centralis (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis clarias (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Synodontis comoensis (Daget & Lévêque, 1981)
* Synodontis congica (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis contracta (Vinciguerra, 1928)
* Synodontis courteti (Pellegrin, 1906)
* Synodontis cuangoana (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis decora (Boulenger, 1899)
* Synodontis dekimpei (Paugy, 1987)
* Synodontis depauwi (Boulenger, 1899)
* Synodontis dhonti (Boulenger, 1917)
* Synodontis dorsomaculatus (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis eupterus (Boulenger, 1901)
* Synodontis fascipinna (Nichols & La Monte, 1953)
* Synodontis filamentosa (Boulenger, 1901)
* Synodontis flavitaeniatus (Boulenger, 1919)
* Synodontis frontosa (Vaillant, 1895)
* Synodontis fuelleborni (Hilgendorf & Pappenheim, 1903)
* Synodontis gambiensis (Günther, 1864)
* Synodontis geledensis (Günther, 1896)
* Synodontis gobroni (Daget, 1954)
* Synodontis grandiops (Wright & Page, 2006)
* Synodontis granulosa (Boulenger, 1900)
* Synodontis greshoffi (Schilthuis, 1891)
* Synodontis guttata (Günther, 1865)
* Synodontis haugi (Pellegrin, 1906)
* Synodontis ilebrevis (Wright & Page, 2006)
* Synodontis iturii (Steindachner, 1911)
* Synodontis katangae (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis khartoumensis (Gideiri, 1967)
* Synodontis koensis (Pellegrin, 1933)
* Synodontis kogonensis (Musschoot & Lalèyè, 2008)
* Synodontis laessoei (Norman, 1923)
* Synodontis leoparda (Pfeffer, 1896)
* Synodontis leopardina (Pellegrin, 1914)
* Synodontis levequei (Paugy, 1987)
* Synodontis longirostris (Boulenger, 1902)
* Synodontis longispinis (Pellegrin, 1930)
* Synodontis lucipinnis (Wright & Page, 2006)
* Synodontis lufirae (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis macrophthalmus (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis macrops (Greenwood, 1963)
* Synodontis macropunctata (Wright & Page, 2008)
* Synodontis macrostigma (Boulenger, 1911)
* Synodontis macrostoma (Skelton & White, 1990)
* Synodontis manni (De Vos, 2001)
* Synodontis marmoratus (Lönnberg, 1895)
* Synodontis matthesi (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis melanoptera (Boulenger, 1903)
* Synodontis membranaceus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809)
* Synodontis multimaculatus (Boulenger, 1902)
* Synodontis multipunctatus (Boulenger, 1898)
* Synodontis nebulosus (Peters, 1852)
* Synodontis ngouniensis (De Weirdt, Vreven & Fermon, 2008)
* Synodontis nigrita (Valenciennes, 1840)
* Synodontis nigriventris (David, 1936)
* Synodontis nigromaculata (Boulenger, 1905)
* Synodontis njassae (Keilhack, 1908)
* Synodontis notatus (Vaillant, 1893)
* Synodontis nummifer (Boulenger, 1899)
* Synodontis obesus (Boulenger, 1898)
* Synodontis ocellifer (Boulenger, 1900)
* Synodontis omias (Günther, 1864)
* Synodontis ornatipinnis (Boulenger, 1899)
* Synodontis ornatissima (Gosse, 1982)
* Synodontis ouemeensis (Musschoot & Lalèyè, 2008)
* Synodontis pardalis (Boulenger, 1908)
* Synodontis petricola (Matthes, 1959)
* Synodontis pleurops (Boulenger, 1897)
* Synodontis polli (Gosse, 1982)
* Synodontis polyodon (Vaillant, 1895)
* Synodontis polystigma (Boulenger, 1915)
* Synodontis pulcher (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis punctifer (Daget, 1965)
* Synodontis punctulata (Günther, 1889)
* Synodontis rebeli (Holly, 1926)
* Synodontis resupinatus (Boulenger, 1904)
* Synodontis ricardoae (Seegers, 1996)
* Synodontis robbianus (Smith, 1875)
* Synodontis robertsi (Poll, 1974)
* Synodontis ruandae (Matthes, 1959)
* Synodontis rufigiensis (Bailey, 1968)
* Synodontis rukwaensis (Hilgendorf & Pappenheim, 1903)
* Synodontis schall (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
* Synodontis schoutedeni (David, 1936)
* Synodontis serpentis (Whitehead, 1962)
* Synodontis serrata (Rüppell, 1829)
* Synodontis smiti (Boulenger, 1902)
* Synodontis soloni (Boulenger, 1899)
* Synodontis sorex (Günther, 1864)
* Synodontis steindachneri (Boulenger, 1913)
* Synodontis tanganyicae (Borodin, 1936)
* Synodontis tessmanni (Pappenheim, 1911)
* Synodontis thamalakanensis (Fowler, 1935)
* Synodontis thysi (Poll, 1971)
* Synodontis tourei (Daget, 1962)
* Synodontis unicolor (Boulenger, 1915)
* Synodontis vaillanti (Boulenger, 1897)
* Synodontis vanderwaali (Skelton & White, 1990)
* Synodontis velifer (Norman, 1935)
* Synodontis vermiculata (Daget, 1954)
* Synodontis victoriae (Boulenger, 1906)
* Synodontis violacea (Pellegrin, 1919)
* Synodontis voltae (Roman, 1975)
* Synodontis waterloti (Daget, 1962)
* Synodontis woleuensis (Friel & Sullivan, 2008)
* Synodontis woosnami (Boulenger, 1911)
* Synodontis xiphias (Günther, 1864)
* Synodontis zambezensis (Peters, 1852)
* Synodontis zanzibarica (Peters, 1868)

## Referències

* ↑ Mitochondrial phylogeny and phylogeography of East African squeaker catfishes (Siluriformes: Synodontis) (anglès)
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