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Genus of fishes
Ictalurus is a
genus of
North American freshwater catfishes . It includes the well-known channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus ) and blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus ).
The catfish genome database (cBARBEL) is a database for the genetics of Ictalurus species.
[1]
Species
Currently, 10 species in this genus are recognized:
[2]
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)
Four fossil species also are assigned to this genus:
[3]
References
^ Lu, J.; Peatman, E.; Yang, Q.; Wang, S.; Hu, Z.; Reecy, J.; Kucuktas, H.; Liu, Z. (8 October 2010).
"The catfish genome database cBARBEL: an informatic platform for genome biology of ictalurid catfish" . Nucleic Acids Research . 39 (Database): D815–D821.
doi :
10.1093/nar/gkq765 .
PMC
3013753 .
PMID
20935046 .
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, 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.
doi :
10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1 .
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