{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Amphilius'' | image = Amphilius_longirostris.jpg | image_caption = ''Amphilius longirostris'' | taxon = Amphilius | authority = Günther, 1864 | type_species = ''Pimelodus platychir'' | type_species_authority = Günther, 1864 | synonyms = ''Anoplopterus'' <small>Pfeffer, 1889</small><br /> ''Chimarrhoglanis'' <small>Vaillant, 1897</small> }}
'''''Amphilius''''' is a genus of catfishes of the family Amphiliidae.<ref name="Ferraris">{{cite journal|url=http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf|title=Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types|author=Ferraris, C.J.Jr.|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1418|pages=1–628|year=2007|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1}}</ref>
''Amphilius'' catfish have fairly lengthened bodies, with short, depressed, and broad heads. They have three pairs of fringed barbels. The eyes, small and located dorsally, are very distant from each other, and are without a free edge. The caudal fin is forked or emarginated.<ref name="Skelton">{{cite encyclopedia|chapter-url=http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/Fau_trop/36567.pdf|chapter=Amphiliidae|author=Skelton, P.H.|encyclopedia=Faune des poissons d'eaux douces et saumâtres d'Afrique de l'Ouest|volume=Tome 2|pages=450–467|date=1992|publisher=Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique and O.R.S.T.O.M., Paris, France, 902}}</ref> Unlike species of ''Paramphilius'', the snout is greater than half of the snout length, the adipose fin is not confluent with the caudal fin in adult specimens, and the anal fin has seven or fewer branched rays.<ref name="Skelton"/>
==Species== There are currently 33 recognized species in this genus: * ''Amphilius atesuensis'' <small>Boulenger, 1904</small> * ''Amphilius athiensis'' <small>A. W. Thomson & Page, 2010</small> * ''Amphilius brevis'' <small>Boulenger, 1902</small> * ''Amphilius caudosignatus'' <small>P. H. Skelton, 2007</small> * ''Amphilius chalei'' <small>Seegers, 2008</small> * ''Amphilius crassus'' <small>A. W. Thomson & Hilber, 2015</small> <ref name=Thomson2015>{{cite journal |author1=Thomson A.W. |author2=Page L.M. |author3=Hilber S.A. | year = 2015 | title = Revision of the ''Amphilius jacksonii'' complex (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae), with the descriptions of five new species | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3986 | issue = 1| pages = 61–87 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3986.1.3|pmid=26250171 | doi-access = free }}</ref> * ''Amphilius cryptobullatus'' <small>P. H. Skelton, 1986</small> * ''Amphilius dimonikensis'' <small>P. H. Skelton, 2007</small> * ''Amphilius frieli'' <small>A. W. Thomson & Page, 2015</small> <ref name=Thomson2015/> * ''Amphilius grandis'' <small>Boulenger, 1905</small> * ''Amphilius jacksonii'' <small>Boulenger, 1912</small> (Marbled mountain catfish) * ''Amphilius kakrimensis'' <small>Teugels, P. H. Skelton & Lévêque, 1987</small> * ''Amphilius kivuensis'' <small>Pellegrin, 1933</small> * ''Amphilius korupi'' <small>P. H. Skelton, 2007</small> * ''Amphilius krefftii'' <small>Boulenger, 1911</small> * ''Amphilius lamani'' <small>Lönnberg & Rendahl (de), 1920</small> * ''Amphilius lampei'' <small>Pietschmann, 1913</small> * ''Amphilius laticaudatus'' <small>P. H. Skelton, 1984</small> (Broadtail mountain catfish) * ''Amphilius lentiginosus'' <small>Trewavas, 1936</small> * ''Amphilius longirostris'' <small>(Boulenger, 1901)</small> * ''Amphilius lujani'' <small>A. W. Thomson & Page, 2015</small> <ref name=Thomson2015/> * ''Amphilius maesii'' <small>Boulenger, 1919</small> * ''Amphilius mamonekenensis'' <small>P. H. Skelton, 2007</small> * ''Amphilius natalensis'' <small>Boulenger, 1917</small> (Natal mountain catfish) * ''Amphilius nigricaudatus'' <small>Pellegrin, 1909</small> * ''Amphilius opisthophthalmus'' <small>Boulenger, 1919</small> * ''Amphilius pedunculus'' <small>A. W. Thomson & Page, 2015</small> <ref name=Thomson2015/> * ''Amphilius platychir'' <small>(Günther, 1864)</small> (Mountain barbel) * ''Amphilius pulcher'' <small>Pellegrin, 1929</small> * ''Amphilius rheophilus'' <small>Daget, 1959</small> * ''Amphilius ruziziensis'' <small>A. W. Thomson & Page, 2015</small> <ref name=Thomson2015/> * ''Amphilius uranoscopus'' <small>(Pfeffer, 1889)</small> (Stargazer mountain catfish) * ''Amphilius zairensis'' <small>P. H. Skelton, 1986</small>
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Category:Amphilius Category:Amphiliinae Category:Fish of Africa Category:Catfish genera Category:Taxa named by Albert Günther Category:Freshwater fish genera Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot