Bagrus

Bagrus
Temporal range: Late Miocene? - Recent
7.0–0Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
Subclass: Neopterygii
Infraclass: Teleostei
Superorder: Ostariophysi
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Bagridae
Genus: Bagrus
L. A. G. Bosc, 1816
Type species
Silurus bajad
Forsskål, 1775
Species

10, see text

Synonyms

Porcus Saint-Hilaire, 1809 (see text)

Bagrus is a genus of bagrid catfishes. Its present scientific name 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.[1]

Species

Eleven living species are placed here:[2]

A possible fossil Bagrus from about 7 million years ago, found in Late Miocene Baynunah Formation[3] rocks near Ruwais (Abu Dhabi), has been described:[1]

However, it is not quite clear whether it belongs in Bagrus or some other Bagridae genus, or even in the Claroteidae.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ferraris (2007)
  2. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Bagrus in FishBase. December 2011 version.
  3. "Bahnunah" is a variant transliteration or lapsus