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Horabagrinae?

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I know this isn't technically news, but it is taxonomy related. So I was looking over the Ferraris 2007 Catfish checklist, and I noticed at the end it lists a few papers and such that were published in 2006 after the cut-off date. One of these such publications is "Catfishes of India" by Jayaram. Apparently he describes the subfamily Horabagrinae as a subfamily to Schilbidae. Is this accepted? If so, shouldn't Cat-eLog entries for Horabagrus be moved?
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Recent studies on the molecular phylogeny of catfishes have indicated that Horabagrus should be placed in its own family (Horabagridae).
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Yup, I've been aware of that for a while. I wasn't sure of the level of usage/acceptance of the change mind you.

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Silurus wrote:Recent studies on the molecular phylogeny of catfishes have indicated that Horabagrus should be placed in its own family (Horabagridae).
Ah yes, I did read that in Sullivan et al 2006. Why is it that this hasn't been "accepted" yet?
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Suckermouth wrote:
Silurus wrote:Recent studies on the molecular phylogeny of catfishes have indicated that Horabagrus should be placed in its own family (Horabagridae).
Ah yes, I did read that in Sullivan et al 2006. Why is it that this hasn't been "accepted" yet?
Could just be that nothing subsequent has been published that would need to reference the change. Catalog of fishes, Fishbase and ACSI don't use it (yet?). I wasn't planning on being the first to "jump".

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