Hemibagrus

Hemibagrus
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Recent
Hemibagrus planiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Bagridae
Genus: Hemibagrus
Bleeker, 1862
Type species
Bagrus nemurus
Valenciennes, 1840
Species

H. baramensis
H. bongan
H. caveatus
H. centralus
H. chrysops
H. filamentus
H. fortis
H. furcatus
H. gracilis
H. guttatus
H. hainanensis
H. hoevenii
H. hongus
H. imbrifer
H. johorensis
H. macropterus
H. major †
H. maydelli
H. menoda
H. microphthalmus
H. nemurus
H. olyroides
H. peguensis
H. planiceps
H. pluriradiatus
H. punctatus
H. sabanus
H. spilopterus
H. variegatus
H. velox
H. vietnamicus
H. wyckii
H. wyckioides
Synonyms
  • Macropterobagrus
    Nichols, 1925
  • Brachymystus
    Fowler, 1937

Hemibagrus is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Bagridae.

The genus Hemibagrus is known from Southeast Asia, India, and southern China.[1] Members of this genus are found ubiquitously in river drainages east of the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin and south of the Yangtze basin, and reach their greatest diversity in Sundaland.[2]

This genus consists of large-sized catfishes.[2] H. wyckioides is the largest Bagrid catfish in central Indochina and may reach 80 kilograms.[3] It includes species with depressed (flattened) heads, rugose (ridged or wrinkled) head shields not covered by skin, and moderately long adipose fins.[2]

In Southeast Asia, Hemibagrus species are an important source of animal protein.[3]

The extinct species, H. major[4][5], is a fossil species from Miocene lake fauna from what is now Ban Nong Pia, Phetchabun Province of Thailand.

References

  1. ^ Ng, Peter K. L.; Ng, H. H. (1995). "Hemibagrus gracilis, a New Species of Large Riverine Catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from Peninsular Malaysia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 43 (1): 133–142. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/43/43rbz133-142.pdf. 
  2. ^ a b c Ng, Heok Hee; Dodson, Julian J. (1999). "Morphological and Genetic Descriptions of a New Species of Catfish, Hemibagrus chrysops, from Sarawak, East Malaysia, with an Assessment of Phylogenetic Relationships (Teleostei: Bagridae" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 47 (1): 45–57. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/47/47rbz045-057.pdf. 
  3. ^ a b Ng, Heok Hee; Rainboth, Walter, J. (1999). "The Bagrid Catfish Genus Hemibagrus (Teleostei: Siluriformes) in Central Indochina with a New Species from the Mekong River" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 47 (2): 555–576. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/47/47rbz555-576.pdf. 
  4. ^ Roberts, Tyler R. (1999). (PDF)Natural History Bulletin Siam ~1Soc. 47 153-189: 153–189. http://www.thaiscience.info/journals/Article/Miocene%20fishes%20from%20lake%20phetchabun%20in%20northcentral%20thailand,%20with%20descriptions%20of%20new%20taxa%20of%20cyprinidae,%20pangasiidae,%20and%20chandidae.pdf. 
  5. ^ Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf.