Ictalurus
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| Ictalurus Fossil range: Oligocene - Recent |
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| Silurus cerulescens Rafinesque, 1820 |
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I. australis |
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Ictalurus is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Ictaluridae. It includes the well-known channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus).[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628.
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