Bagre (fish)
Appearance
(Redirected from Bagreinae)
Bagre | |
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Bagre marinus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Ariidae |
Subfamily: | Bagreinae |
Genus: | Bagre Cloquet, 1816 |
Type species | |
Silurus bagre Linnaeus, 1766
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Bagre is a genus of sea catfishes found along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas from southern North America to northern South America. Currently, four species are described:
- Bagre bagre (Linnaeus, 1766) (coco sea catfish)
- Bagre marinus (Mitchill, 1815) (gafftopsail catfish)
- Bagre panamensis (T. N. Gill, 1863) (Chilhuil sea catfish)
- Bagre pinnimaculatus (Steindachner, 1877) (red sea catfish)
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Bagre". FishBase. December 2011 version.