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Bagrus
Sign in to saveBagrus is a genus of bagrid catfishes. These are relatively large catfish found in freshwater habitats in Africa, except for the virtually unknown B. tucumanus from South America, which likely is a synonym of Luciopimelodus pati.
Species
Semutundu
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSiluriformes
- FamilyBagridae
Bagrus is een geslacht van straalvinnige vissen uit de familie van de stekelmeervallen (Bagridae).
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 85
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Bagridae
- Collections
- USNM, ROM, CAS, AUM, UMMZ, NRM
- Recorded in
- Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Niger, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Congo Kinshasa, Nigeria
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- Bagrus
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- Bagrus
- start time
- 7000000-00
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Bagrus is a genus of bagrid catfishes. These are relatively large catfish found in freshwater habitats in Africa, except for the virtually unknown B. tucumanus from South America, which likely is a synonym of Luciopimelodus pati.
==Taxonomy== The present scientific name Bagrus was first proposed by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1816 for the bayad and its closest relatives. Although in 1809, 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.
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