Ictalurus

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. 

External links

• Media related to Ictalurus at Wikimedia Commons