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

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

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; 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.

External links

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