Ictalurus

Ictalurus; Temporal range: Oligocene - Recent
	channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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).

The catfish genome database (cBARBEL) is a database for the genetics of Ictalurus species.^[1]

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:^[2]

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:^[3]

References

^ Lu, J.; Peatman, E.; Yang, Q.; Wang, S.; Hu, Z.; Reecy, J.; Kucuktas, H.; Liu, Z. (8 October 2010). "The catfish genome database cBARBEL: an informatic platform for genome biology of ictalurid catfish". Nucleic Acids Research. 39 (Database): D815–D821. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq765. PMID 20935046.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ictalurus". FishBase. December 2011 version.
^ Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

Media related to Ictalurus at Wikimedia Commons
Catfish genome database (cBARBEL)

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[1] Lu, J.; Peatman, E.; Yang, Q.; Wang, S.; Hu, Z.; Reecy, J.; Kucuktas, H.; Liu, Z. (8 October 2010). "The catfish genome database cBARBEL: an informatic platform for genome biology of ictalurid catfish". Nucleic Acids Research. 39 (Database): D815–D821. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq765. PMID 20935046.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ictalurus". FishBase. December 2011 version.

[3] Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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