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Ictalurus
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Statistics of barcoding coverage:
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:221
Specimens with Sequences:202
Specimens with Barcodes:202
Species:7
Species With Barcodes:7
Public Records:75
Public Species:4
Public BINs:3
Ictalurus:
Ictalurus is a genus of North American freshwater catfishes. It includes the well-known channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus).
Species[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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.
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Depth range based on 50 specimens in 12 taxa.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0.06 - 3.35
Graphical representation
Depth range (m): 0.06 - 3.35
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