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: Ictaluridae
Genus: Ictalurus
Species: I. australis – I. balsanus – I. dugesii – †I. echinatus – I. furcatus – †I. lambda – I. lupus – I. mexicanus – I. ochoterenai – I. pricei – I. punctatus – †I. rhaeas – †I. spodius
Name
Ictalurus Rafinesque, 1820
Synonymy
Elliops Rafinesque, 1820
Synechoglanis Gill, 1859
Ichthaelurus Cope, 1868
Villarius Rutter, 1896
Haustor Jordan & Evermann, 1896
Istlarius Jordan & Snyder
Ichthyaelurus Meek, 1904
References
Carl J. Ferraris, Jr., 2007, Zootaxa 1418: 1–628 [1]
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]
†Ictalurus echinatus
†Ictalurus lambda
†Ictalurus rhaeas
†Ictalurus spodius
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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ictalurus". 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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