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).

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

Species

Currently, 10 species in this genus are recognized:[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)

Four fossil species also are assigned to this genus:[3]

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

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. PMC 3013753. PMID 20935046.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Ictalurus in 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.

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. PMC 3013753. PMID 20935046.

[2] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Ictalurus in 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.