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Ictalurus furcatus (Valenciennes, 1840)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Siluriformes
family
Ictaluridae
genus
Ictalurus
species
Ictalurus furcatus

Name

Synonyms
Amiurus ponderosus Bean, 1880
Pimelodus affinis Baird & Girard, 1854
Pimelodus furcatus Valenciennes, 1840
Homonyms
Ictalurus furcatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
Ictalurus furcatus (Lesueur, 1840)
Common names
Bagre azul in Spanish
Bagre azul in Spanish
Bagre azul in Spanish
Blauer Katzenwels in German
Blue Catfish in English
Blue catfish in English
Blue catfish in English
Blue catfish in English
Blue catfish in English
Blå dværgmalle in Danish
Catfish in English
Sinipiikkimonni in Finnish
Sinyaya zubatka in Russian
Sumik blekitny in Polish
bagre azul in Spanish
長鰭真鮰(長鰭叉尾鮰)(引進) in language.
长鳍叉尾鮰 in language.
长鳍真鮰(长鳍叉尾鮰)(引进) in language.
Blue Catfish in English
bagre azul in Spanish
blue catfish in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  2. Ferraris, Carl J., Jr., 2007: Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, vol. 1418. 1-628.
  3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
  4. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  5. Murdy, Edward O., Ray S. Birdsong, and John A. Musick, 1997: null. Fishes of Chesapeake Bay. xi + 324.
  6. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  7. Page, L. M., H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, R. N. Lea, N. E. Mandrak, et al., eds., 2013: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Seventh Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 34. ix + 384.
  8. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  9. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
  10. Rodiles-Hernández, Rocío, John G. Lundberg, and John P. Sullivan, 2010: Taxonomic discrimination and identification of extant blue catfishes (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae: Ictalurus furcatus Group). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 159, no. 1. 67-82.
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