Ictalurus

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Ictalurus
Temporal range: Oligocene - Recent
channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ictaluridae
Genus: Ictalurus
Rafinesque, 1820
Type species
Silurus cerulescens
Rafinesque, 1820
Synonyms
  • Elliops Rafinesque, 1820
  • Synechoglanis Gill, 1859
  • Ichthaelurus Cope, 1868
  • Villarius Rutter, 1896
  • Haustor Jordan & Evermann, 1896
  • Istlarius Jordan & Snyder, 1899
  • Ichthyaelurus Meek, 1904

Ictalurus is a genus of North American freshwater catfishes. It includes the well-known channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus).

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • 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)

There are also four fossil species assigned to this genus:[2]

  • †Ictalurus echinatus
  • †Ictalurus lambda
  • †Ictalurus rhaeas
  • †Ictalurus spodius

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Ictalurus in FishBase. December 2011 version.
  2. ↑ 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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