Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Claroteidae
Parent taxon: Siluroidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Nelson et al. 2016 and Otero et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Ailiidae, Akysidae, Amblycipitidae, Amphiliidae, Anchariidae, Ariidae, Arioidea, Auchenipteridae, Austroglanididae, Bagridae, Cetopsidae, Chacidae, Clariidae, Clarioidea, Cranoglanididae, Doradoidea, Heptapteridae, Heteropneustidae, Horabagridae, Hypsidoroidea, Ictaluridae, Malapteruridae, Mochokidae, Pangasiidae, Pimelodidae, Plotosidae, Pseudopimelodidae, Ritidae, Schilbeidae, Siluridae, Siluriodae, Sisoridae, Sisoroidea
Subtaxa: Chrysichthys Clarotes
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (1 collection), Kenya (2), Sudan (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Kenya (2), Uganda (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Uganda (23)
• Miocene of Kenya (1), Tunisia (1)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1)
• Eocene of Mali (1), Nigeria (2), Tanzania (1)
Total: 49 collections including 58 occurrences