Biology:Hemibagrus

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Short description: Genus of fishes


Hemibagrus
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Recent
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Hemibagrus planiceps
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Bagridae
Genus: Hemibagrus
Bleeker, 1862
Type species
Bagrus nemurus
Valenciennes, 1840
Species
  • see text below
Synonyms
  • Macropterobagrus
    Nichols, 1925
  • Brachymystus
    Fowler, 1937

Hemibagrus is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Bagridae.

The genus Hemibagrus is known from Southeast Asia, India , and southern China .[1] Members of this genus are found ubiquitously in river drainages east of the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin and south of the Yangtze basin, and reach their greatest diversity in Sundaland.[2]

This genus consists of large-sized catfishes.[2] H. wyckioides is the largest Bagrid catfish in central Indochina and may reach 80 kilograms.[3] It includes species with depressed (flattened) heads, rugose (ridged or wrinkled) head shields not covered by skin, and moderately long adipose fins.[2]

In Southeast Asia, Hemibagrus species are an important source of animal protein.[3]

The extinct species, H. major,[4][5] is a fossil species from a Miocene lake fauna from what is now Ban Nong Pia, Phetchabun Province of Thailand.

Species

There are currently 41 recognized species in this genus:[6][7]

References

  1. Ng, Peter K. L.; Ng, H. H. (1995). "Hemibagrus gracilis, a New Species of Large Riverine Catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from Peninsular Malaysia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 43 (1): 133–142. Archived from the original on 2007-06-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20070617223333/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/43/43rbz133-142.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ng, Heok Hee; Dodson, Julian J. (1999). "Morphological and Genetic Descriptions of a New Species of Catfish, Hemibagrus chrysops, from Sarawak, East Malaysia, with an Assessment of Phylogenetic Relationships (Teleostei: Bagridae" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 47 (1): 45–57. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/47/47rbz045-057.pdf. Retrieved 2007-06-17. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Ng, Heok Hee; Rainboth, Walter J. (1999). "The Bagrid Catfish Genus Hemibagrus (Teleostei: Siluriformes) in Central Indochina with a New Species from the Mekong River" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 47 (2): 555–576. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/47/47rbz555-576.pdf. Retrieved 2007-06-17. 
  4. Roberts, Tyler R.; Jumnongthai, Junya (1999). "Miocene fishes from Lake Phetchabun in north-central Thailand, with descriptions of new taxa of Cyprinidae, Pangasiidae, and Chandidae" (PDF). Natural History Bulletin Siam 47: 153–189. http://www.siamese-heritage.org/nhbsspdf/vol041-050/NHBSS_047_2h_Roberts_MioceneFishesFrom.pdf. 
  5. Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/library/biblios/2007_Ferraris_Catfish_Checklist.pdf. 
  6. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Hemibagrus in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Ng, H.H. & Kottelat, M. (2013): Revision of the Asian catfish genus Hemibagrus Bleeker, 1862 (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Bagridae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 61 (1): 205-291.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q584717 entry