Bagrus
Bagrus Temporal range: Late Miocene? - Recent
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Bagrus bajad | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Bagridae |
Genus: | Bagrus L. A. G. Bosc, 1816 |
Type species | |
Silurus bajad Forsskål, 1775
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Species | |
11, see text | |
Synonyms | |
Porcus Saint-Hilaire, 1809 (see text) |
Bagrus is a genus of catfishes. These are relatively large catfish found in freshwater habitats in Africa,[1] except for the virtually unknown B. tucumanus from South America, which likely is a synonym of Luciopimelodus pati.[2][3]
Taxonomy[]
The present scientific name Bagrus was first proposed by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1816 for the bayad and its closest relatives. Although in 1809, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had already separated this fish in his new genus Porcus. But this was overruled by the ICZN, so that the junior synonym could continue to be used.[4]
Species[]
Eleven living species are placed here:[1]
- Bagrus bajad (Forsskål, 1775) (Bayad)
- T. R. Roberts & , 1976
- Boulenger, 1906
- (Forsskål, 1775) (Semutundu)
- Pellegrin, 1924
- Lönnberg, 1924
- Bagrus meridionalis Günther, 1894 (Kampango, Kampoyo)
- Bagrus orientalis Boulenger, 1902
- Burmeister, 1861
- Boulenger, 1902
- Bagrus urostigma Vinciguerra, 1895 (Somalia Catfish)
A possible fossil Bagrus from about 7 million years ago, found in Late Miocene Baynunah Formation[5] rocks near Ruwais (Abu Dhabi), has been described:[4]
- Bagrus shuwaiensis Forey & Young, 1999
However, it is not quite clear whether it belongs in Bagrus or some other Bagridae genus, or even in the Claroteidae.[4]
References[]
- Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007): Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. PDF fulltext
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Bagrus in FishBase. April 2017 version.
- ^ Koerber, S.; and T. Litz (2008). On some overlooked taxa of freshwater fishes described from Argentina by Hermann Burmeister in 1861. Ichthyological Contributions of PecesCriollos 7: 1-15.
- ^ Mirande, J. M.; and S. Koerber (2015). Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Argentina (CLOFFAR). Ichthyological Contributions of PecesCriollos 36: 1-68.
- ^ a b c Ferraris (2007)
- ^ "Bahnunah" is a variant transliteration or lapsus
- Bagrus
- Catfish genera
- Catfish of Africa
- Freshwater fish genera
- Bagridae
- Taxa named by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc