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Genera in the family or subfamily Mastacembelidae: [ 11 ] records

Aethiomastacembelus Travers [R. A.] 1988:256 Masc. Mastacembelus marchei Sauvage 1879. Type by original designation. •Valid as Aethiomastacembelus Travers 1988 -- (Lévêque et al. 1989:123 [ref. 26480], Paugy et al. 1990:343 [ref. 26477], Travers 1992:336 [ref. 14258], Travers in Lévêque et al. 1992:848 [ref. 21590], Poll & Gosse 1995:103 [ref. 24781], Vreven & Teugels 1996:136 [ref. 22026], Vreven & Teugels 1997:81 [ref. 22885], Seegers 1996:331 [ref. 23725], Brittan 1998:95 [ref. 24513], Vreven 2004:97 [ref. 27762]). •Synonym of Mastacembelus Scopoli 1777 -- (Vreven 2005:1540 [ref. 28140], Vreven 2007:549 [ref. 30080], Kottelat 2013:312 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Mastacembelus Scopoli 1777. Mastacembelidae.

Afromastacembelus Travers [R. A.] 1984:145 Masc. Mastacembelus tanganicae Günther 1894. Type by original designation. •Valid as Afromastacembelus Travers 1984 -- (Travers et al. 1986:415 [ref. 6221], Roberts & Travers 1986 [ref. 6759]). •Synonym of Caecomastacembelus Poll 1958 -- (Travers 1988 [ref. 6869], Lévêque et al. 1989:123 [ref. 26480], Seegers 1996:331 [ref. 23725]). •Synonym of Mastacembelus Scopoli 1777 -- (Kottelat 2013:312 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Mastacembelus Scopoli 1777. Mastacembelidae.

Bdellorhynchus Jordan [D. S.] & Tanaka [S.] 1927:391 Masc. Mastacembelus maculatus Cuvier 1832. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Kottelat (2013) •Synonym of Mastacembelus Scopoli 1777 -- (Sufi 1956:105 [ref. 12498], Roberts 1989:180 [ref. 6439]). •Synonym of Macrognathus Lacepède 1800 -- (Kottelat 2013:310 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Macrognathus Lacepède 1800. Mastacembelidae.

Caecomastacembelus Poll [M.] 1958:388 Masc. Caecomastacembelus brichardi Poll 1958. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Also appeared as new in Poll 1959:112 [ref. 3522]. •Valid as Caecomastacembelus Poll 1958 -- (Travers 1984:144 [ref. 5147], Travers et al. 1986:421 [ref. 6221], Travers 1988 [ref. 6869], Lévêque et al. 1989:123 [ref. 26480], Paugy et al. 1990:343 [ref. 26477], Travers 1992:332 [ref. 14258], Travers in Lévêque et al. 1992:853 [ref. 21590], Poll & Gosse 1995:103 [ref. 24781], Seegers 1996:331 [ref. 23725], Vreven & Teugels 1996:136 [ref. 22026], Brittan 1998:95 [ref. 24513]). •Synonym of Mastacembelus Scopoli 1777 -- (Vreven 2005:1540 [ref. 28140], Vreven 2007:549 [ref. 30080], Kottelat 2013:312 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Mastacembelus Scopoli 1777. Mastacembelidae.

Gyrinostomus Rochebrune [A. T. de] 1885:96 Masc. Gyrinostomus marchei Rochebrune 1885. Type by monotypy. Current status: Uncertain. Mastacembelidae.

Macrognathus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1800:283 Masc. Ophidium aculeatum Bloch 1786. Type by subsequent designation. Earliest type designation located is Jordan 1917:56 [ref. 2407]. Correct spelling for genus of type species is Ophidion. •Valid as Macrognathus Lacepède 1800 -- (Sufi 1956:99 [ref. 12498], Jayaram 1981:387 [ref. 6497], Travers 1984:143 [ref. 5147], Kottelat 1985:274 [ref. 11441], Roberts 1986:98 [ref. 5802], Kottelat 1989:20 [ref. 13605], Roberts 1989:178 [ref. 6439], Ataur Rahman 1989:261 [ref. 24860], Brittan 1998:95 [ref. 24513], Arunkumar & Tombi Singh 2000:117 [ref. 25674], Ataur Rahman 2003:285 [ref. 31338], Pethiyagoda et al. 2008:37 [ref. 30097], Scharpf 2009:19 [ref. 30400], Britz 2010:295 [ref. 30685], Britz 2010:55 [ref. 30857], Plamoottil & Abraham 2013:6 [ref. 33148], Kottelat 2013:310 [ref. 32989], Plamoottil & Abraham 2014:49 [ref. 33147], Plamoottil & Abraham 2014:100 [ref. 33317], Arunkumar 2016:2003 [ref. 35770], Britz & Kottelat 2020:[1] [ref. 37336], Ng & Tan 2020:170 [ref. 37671], Arunkumar 2020:44 [ref. 37761]). Current status: Valid as Macrognathus Lacepède 1800. Mastacembelidae.

Mastacembelus Gronow [L. T.] 1763:132 Masc. Not available, published in a rejected work on Official Index (Opinion 261). Suppressed. Mastacembelidae.

Mastacembelus Scopoli [J. A.] (ex Gronow) 1777:458 Masc. Ophidium [sic] mastacembelus Banks & Solander 1794. Type apparently by subsequent monotypy. Appeared first without species; addition of species not researched. Scopoli's spelling is Mastocembelus on Gronow's 1763 unavailable [Mastacembelus]; Scopoli's spelling regarded as in error (see Sufi 1956:106 [ref. 12498]; see also Wheeler 1956:91 [ref. 12499] for type species). But Kottelat (2013) says type is Rhynchobdella halepensis Bloch & Schneider 1801. •Valid as Mastacembelus Scoploi 1777 -- (Sufi 1956:105 [ref. 12498], Jayaram 1981:388 [ref. 6497], Travers 1984:143 [ref. 5147], Roberts 1986 [ref. 5802], Kottelat 1989:20 [ref. 13605], Roberts 1989:180 [ref. 6439], Ataur Rahman 1989:262 [ref. 24860], Zhong in Pan et al. 1991:518 [ref. 23876], Brittan 1998:95 [ref. 24513], Ataur Rahman 2003:286 [ref. 31338], Britz 2007:257 [ref. 29343], Vreven 2007:549 [ref. 30080], Vreven & Snoeks 2009:1019 [ref. 30552], Coad 2010:258 [ref. 36620], Brown et al. 2011:286 [ref. 31286], Yang & Zhou 2011:325 [ref. 31298], Marshall 2011:260 [ref. 31755], Plamoottil & Abraham 2013:6 [ref. 33148], Kottelat 2013:312 [ref. 32989], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:895 [ref. 34062], Coad 2015:1 [ref. 35412], Zhang et al. 2016:192 [ref. 34477], Esmaeili et al. 2017:93 [ref. 35254], Britz 2017:75 [ref. 35487], Esmaeili et al. 2018:75 [ref. 36089], Vu et al. 2019:144 [ref. 37811], Roberts 2021:69 [ref. 38074], Kanu et al. 2022:66 [ref. 39409], Britz & Kottelat 2025:652 [ref. 42629]). Current status: Valid as Mastacembelus Scopoli 1777. Mastacembelidae.

Pararhynchobdella Bleeker [P.] 1874:368 Fem. Mastacembelus maculatus Cuvier 1832. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Synonym of Mastacembelus Scopoli 1777 -- (Sufi 1956:105 [ref. 12498], Roberts 1989:180 [ref. 6439]). •Synonym of Macrognathus Lacepède 1800 -- (Kottelat 2013:310 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Macrognathus Lacepède 1800. Mastacembelidae.

Rhynchobdella Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:478 (liv) Fem. Rhynchobdella orientalis Bloch & Schneider 1801 (= Ophidium aculeatum Bloch 1786). Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan 1917:59 [ref. 2407]. Travers (1984:142) gives type as Rhynchobdella sinensis Bleeker 1870, but sinensis was not an included species. Misspelled Rynchobdella by Bloch & Schneider on p. liv [p. wrongly typeset as xliv] and Rhinchobdella by Griffith & Smith 1834:191 [ref. 1908]. •Valid as Rhynchobdella Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Travers 1984:142 [ref. 5147]). •Synonym of Macrognathus Lacepède 1800 -- (Sufi 1956:99 [ref. 12498], Roberts 1986:98 [ref. 5802], Roberts 1989:178 [ref. 6439], Kottelat & Lim 1994:189 [ref. 21379], Plamoottil & Abraham 2013:6 [ref. 33148], Plamoottil & Abraham 2014:49 [ref. 33147], Kottelat 2013:310 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Macrognathus Lacepède 1800. Mastacembelidae.

Sinobdella Kottelat [M.] & Lim [K. K. P.] 1994:189 Masc. Rhynchobdella sinensis Bleeker 1870. Type by original designation (also monotypic). New name for Rhynchobdella sensu Travers 1984. •Valid in Mastacembelidae -- (Britz & Kottelat 2003:52 [ref. 27205]). •Valid as Sinobdella Kottelat & Lim 1994 -- (Kottelat 2013:314 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:193 [ref. 34477], Shan et al. 2024:1 [ref. 41242]). Current status: Valid as Sinobdella Kottelat & Lim 1994. Mastacembelidae.