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Genus of fishes

Hemibagrus
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Hemibagrus planiceps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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. 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.

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

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

The extinct species, H. major, 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:

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 (PDF) on 2007-06-17.
  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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-17. Retrieved 2007-06-17.
  3. ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-17. 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.
  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.
  6. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Hemibagrus". FishBase. February 2013 version.
  7. ^ 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.

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Taxon identifiers
Hemibagrus


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