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Bagrus Fossil range: Late Miocene? - Recent 7.0–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Superclass: Osteichthyes Class: Actinopterygii Subclass: Neopterygii Infraclass: Teleostei Superorder: Ostariophysi Order: Siluriformes Family: Bagridae Genus: Bagrus Bosc, 1816
Type species
Silurus bajad Forsskål, 1775
Species
10, see text
Synonyms
Porcus Saint-Hilaire, 1809 (see text)

Bagrus is a genus of naked catfishes. Its present scientific name was first proposed by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1816 for the Bayad and its closest relatives. In 1809 however, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had already separated this fish in his new genus Porcus. But this was overruled by the ICZN, so that the junior synonym could continue to be used.¹

10 living species are placed here:²

• Bagrus bajad – Bayad
• Bagrus caeruleus Roberts and Stewart, 1976
• Bagrus degeni Boulenger, 1906
• Bagrus docmak (Forsskål, 1775)
• Bagrus filamentosus Pellegrin, 1924
• Bagrus lubosicus Lönnberg, 1924
• Bagrus meridionalis – Kampango, Kampoyo
• Bagrus orientalis
• Bagrus ubangensis Boulenger, 1902
• Bagrus urostigma – Somalia Catfish

A possible fossil Bagrus from about 7 million years ago, found in Late Miocene Baynunah Formation³ rocks near Ruwais (Abu Dhabi), has been described:¹

• Bagrus shuwaiensis Forey & Young, 1999

However, it is not quite clear whether it belongs in Bagrus or some other Bagridae genus, or even in the Claroteidae.¹

Footnotes

References

• Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007): Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418: 1-628. PDF fulltext
• FishBase (2006): Bagrus species. Version of 2006-MAR-14. Retrieved 2008-NOV-21.

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