Ictalurus
| Ictalurus Temporal range: Oligocene - Recent | |
|---|---|
 | |
| channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ictaluridae |
| Genus: | Ictalurus Rafinesque, 1820 |
| Type species | |
| Silurus cerulescens Rafinesque, 1820 | |
| Synonyms | |
Ictalurus is a genus of North American freshwater catfishes. It includes the well-known channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus).
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Ictalurus australis (Meek, 1904) (Panuco catfish)
- Ictalurus balsanus (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1899) (Balsas catfish)
- Ictalurus dugesii (T. H. Bean, 1880) (Lerma catfish)
- Ictalurus furcatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Blue catfish)
- Ictalurus lupus (Girard, 1858) (Headwater catfish)
- Ictalurus meridionalis (Günther, 1864)
- Ictalurus mexicanus (Meek, 1904) (Rio Verde catfish)
- Ictalurus ochoterenai (F. de Buen, 1946) (Chapala catfish)
- Ictalurus pricei (Rutter, 1896) (Yaqui catfish)
- Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818) (Channel catfish)
There are also four fossil species assigned to this genus:[2]
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Ictalurus in FishBase. December 2011 version.
- ↑ Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, November 30, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.