Bagre

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Siluriformes

Familia: Ariidae
Genus: Bagre
Species: B. bagre – B. marinus – B. panamensis – B. pinnimaculatus – †B. protocaribbeanus
Name

Bagre Cloquet, 1816

Type species: Silurus bagre Linnaeus, 1766
Gender: masculine

Synonymy

Bagre Oken, 1817
Glanis Agassiz in Spix & Agassiz, 1829
Stearopterus Minding, 1832
Breviceps non Merrem, 1820
Felichthys Swainson, 1839
Mystus non Scopoli, 1777

References

Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007) Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628 Full text
Marceniuk, A.P., Menezes, N.A. (2007) Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera. Zootaxa, 1416: 1–126. Full text

Links

Bagre and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Bagre species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Bagre is a genus of sea catfishes found along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas from southern North America to northern South America. Currently, four species are described:

Bagre bagre (Linnaeus, 1766) (coco sea catfish)
Bagre marinus (Mitchill, 1815) (gafftopsail catfish)
Bagre panamensis (T. N. Gill, 1863) (Chilhuil sea catfish)
Bagre pinnimaculatus (Steindachner, 1877) (red sea catfish)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Bagre in FishBase. December 2011 version.

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