Doradidae Bleeker, 1858 Included taxa. Franciscodoras, Acanthodoras, Agamyxis, Astrodoradinae, Doradinae, and Wertheimerinae. Diagnosis. The Doradidae is diagnosed by the following characters: midlateral scutes present (#118: 0>1, exclusive), coronomeckelian bone connected to dentary (#137: 0>1, reversed in Astrodoradinae, Acanthodoras, Agamyxis, Centrochir, Centrodoras, Doraops, Lithodoras, Megalodoras, Platydoras [except Platydoras sp.], and Pterodoras), ligament present between Müllerian ramus and lateral line (212: 0>1, exclusive), infranuchal ligament between posterior nuchal plate and the first rib ossified (#213: 1>2, exclusive), first free vertebra sixth (#217: 2>1, present also in other non-Doradidae catfishes), pectoral-fin spine locking foramen absent (#253: 0>1, foramen absent also in some non-Doradidae catfishes), six or seven branched rays in the ventral lobe of the caudal fin (#306: 1>0, reversed back to state 1 in Doradinae).

Published as part of Birindelli, José L. O., 2014, Phylogenetic relationships of the South American Doradoidea (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes), pp. 451-564 in Neotropical Ichthyology 12 (3) on page 537, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20120027, http://zenodo.org/record/12718979