The smaller ariid catfish have minor value as public and home aquarium fish.

Like other ariid catfishes, Amphiarius species are mouthbrooders.

Ariid catfish have sometimes been called crucifix catfish because their skull (left) resembles a cruciform man.

Beyond their maritime habitat, ariid catfish have a number of unique adaptations that set them apart from other catfish.

The Ariidae or ariid catfish are a family of catfish that mainly live in marine waters with many freshwater and brackish water species.

One well known ariid catfish is the hardhead catfish, Ariopsis felis, abundant along the Western Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Mexico.

Ariid catfish are found in shallow temperate and tropical seas around the coastlines of North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

The most speciose families in New Guinea are the rainbowfish, blue-eyes, gudgeons and gobies, but there are also several species of Old World silverside, grunters, glassfish, ariid catfish, eeltail catfish and more.

Known prey include Macrobrachium prawns, Taenoides or Trypauchen burrowing gobies, ariid catfish, the threadfin Polydactylus macrochir, the gudgeon Prionobutis microps, the benthic croaker Nibea squamosa and the bream Nematalosa erebi.

Arius uncinatus is a species of fish in the Ariidae family.

The general consensus in recent years is that anchariids are members of Ariidae and do not warrant family rank.

The sea catfish is Arius felis of the family Ariidae.

This fish is not related to any of the families found in its range (Ariidae, Ictaluridae, Heptapteridae).

Cryptarius is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Ariidae.

Traditionally, Ancharius is classified in Ariidae.

A molecular analysis grouped Anchariidae with Ariidae under the superfamily Arioidea.

Ancharius has been variably placed in Mochokidae, Ariidae, and Anchariidae.

It has also been classified in a superfamily Arioidea containing Ariidae and Anchariidae.

Lorentz catfish, a species of fish in the Ariidae family, and the only member of the genus Tetranesodon.

The Ariidae or ariid catfish are a family of catfish that mainly live in marine waters with many freshwater and brackish water species.

Plicofollis tonggol (Bleeker, 1846) belongs to the family Ariidae, the order of Siluriformes, and the class of Actinopterygii.

Amissidens hainesi, the Ridged catfish, is the only species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus Amissidens of the family Ariidae.

The New Grenada sea catfish, or Cazon sea catfish (Notarius bonillai) is a species of catfish in the Ariidae family.

Ostariophysians account for about 68% of all freshwater species; in fact, there are only about 123 marine species (Chanidae, Gonorynchidae, most Ariidae, about half of Plotosidae).

Previously, Ariidae has been grouped in the superfamily Doradoidea, but then it was moved into Bagroidea (along with Austroglanididae, Claroteidae, Schilbeidae, Pangasiidae, Bagridae, and Pimelodidae.

The Tete sea catfish, Ariopsis seemanni, is a species of sea catfish in the family Ariidae, native to Pacific-draining rivers and estuaries in Central and South America.

Freshwaters fishes, including remains of fishes of the families like Anostomidae, Osteoglossidae (arapaimas), Characidae, Pimelodidae, Callichthyidae, Ariidae, Doradidae, Loricariidae, Cichlidae and the river stingrays Potamotrygonidae.