Bahaba

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: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Percoidei
Superfamilia: Percoidea

Familia: Sciaenidae
Genus: Bahaba
Species: B. chaptis – B. polykladiskos – B. taipingensis
Name

Bahaba Herre, 1935
References

Zhao, L-L., Gao, T-X. & Lu, W-H. 2015. Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the endangered fish (Bahaba taipingensis): Mitogenome characterization and phylogenetic implications. ZooKeys 546: 181–195. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.546.5964 Reference page.

Links

Bahaba – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Bahaba species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Bahaba is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. These fishes are found in the Indo-West Pacific region.
Taxonomy

Bahaba was first proposed as a monotypic subgenus of the genus Otolithes in 1935 by the American ichthyologist Albert William Herre with its type species being Otolithes (Bahaba) lini. In 1977 Ethelwynn Trewavas treated it as a valid genus in her paper called The sciaenid fishes (croakers or drums) of the Indo-West-Pacific published in the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London and most authorities now treat the genus as valid.[1] Trewavas also stated that Herre's Otolithes lini was a junior synonym of Nibea taipingensis, which Herre had described in 1932.[2] Bahaba belongs to the family Sciaenidae in the order Acanthuriformes.[3] Some authorities place Bahaba in the subfamily Pseudosciaeninae[4] but subfamilies are not recognised within Sciaenidae by Fishes of the World.[3]
Etymology

Bahaba is the word used in the Samal language of the Sulu region of Mindanao in the Philippines for drums and croakers.[5]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[6]

Bahaba chaptis F. Hamilton, 1822 (Chaptis bahaba)
Bahaba polykladiskos Bleeker, 1897 (spine bahaba)
Bahaba taipingensis Herre, 1932 (Chinese bahaba)

Characteristics

Bahaba is distinguished from other sciaenids by the form of their swim bladder which has unbranched horn-like or tube-like appendages which start at the anterior end of the swim bladder and are directed to the rear.[7] The Chinese bahaba is the largest species, having a maximum published total length of 200 cm (79 in) while that of the chaptis bahaba is 50 cm (20 in) and the spine bahaba is 40 cm (16 in).[6]
Distribution and habitat

Bahaba is found in the Indo-West Pacific with one species in the coastal Bay of Bengal,[8] one endemic to the coastal waters of southern China[9] and the third in Southeast Asia.[10]
References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sciaenidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bahaba". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497–502. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
Wei He; Wei-Hua Lu; Xi-Guo Li; et al. (2012). "Taxonomic status of Chinese bahaba (Bahaba taipingensis) and its phylogenetic relationship with other species in the family Sciaenidae". Mitochondrial DNA. 23 (2): 53–61. doi:10.3109/19401736.2011.653797.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (9 March 2023). "Series Eupercaria (Incertae sedis): Families Callanthidae, Centrogenyidae, Dinopercidae, Emmelichthyidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Parascorpididae, Sciaenidae and Sillagidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Bahaba in FishBase. February 2023 version.
K. Sasaki (2001). "Sciaenidae". In Carpenter, K.E. & Neim, Volker H. (eds.). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 5: Bony fishes part 3 (Menidae to Pomacentridae) (PDF). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. FAO Rome. p. 3117.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2023). "Bahaba chaptis" in FishBase. February 2023 version.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2023). "Bahaba taipingensis" in FishBase. February 2023 version.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2023). "Bahaba polykladiskos" in FishBase. February 2023 version.