Hemisilurus Bleeker [P.] 1857:472 Masc. Wallago heterorhynchus Bleeker 1854. Type by monotypy. Also appeared in Bleeker 1858:33 et seq., 255, 257, 295 [ref. 365] with 2 included species. Type designation by Bleeker 1862:395 [ref. 391], 1862:18 [ref. 393] and 1863:116 [ref. 401] not needed. But the genus dates to Bleeker 1857 as above with type by monotypy. See van Oijen et al. 2009:258 [ref. 30423]. •Valid as Hemisilurus Bleeker 1857 [sometimes dated to 1858] -- (Haig 1952:63 [ref. 12607], Kottelat 1985:268 [ref. 11441], Burgess 1989:85 [ref. 12860], Bornbusch & Lundberg 1989 [ref. 12543], Kottelat 1989:14 [ref. 13605], Roberts 1989:145 [ref. 6439], Bornbusch 1995 [ref. 22289], Dai in Chu et al. 1999:92 [ref. 24534], Ferraris 2007:368 [ref. 29155], Kottelat 2013:233 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:179 [ref. 34477]). Current status: Valid as Hemisilurus Bleeker 1857. Siluridae.