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| Bagre marinus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Subfamily: | Bagreinae Schultz, 1944 |
| Genus: | Bagre Cloquet, 1816 |
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| 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. They are the only member of the subfamily Bagreinae. Currently, five species are described:[1]
- Bagre bagre (Linnaeus, 1766) (coco sea catfish)
- Bagre filamentosus (Swainson, 1839)
- Bagre marinus (Mitchill, 1815) (gafftopsail catfish)
- Bagre panamensis (T. N. Gill, 1863) (Chilhuil sea catfish)
- Bagre pinnimaculatus (Steindachner, 1877) (red sea catfish)
The earliest known fossil remains of Bagre are from the Early Miocene-aged Calvert Formation of Maryland, US and the Pungo River Formation of North Carolina, US.[2][3] However, their exclusively American distribution, combined with the ancient divergences assumed among subfamilies of the Ariidae, suggest that the subfamily may have diverged from the Ariinae during the early-mid Cretaceous following the breakup of West Gondwana, isolating the Bagreinae around South America.[4]
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Bagre". FishBase. December 2011 version.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bagre". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ Carnevale, Giorgio; Godfrey, Stephen James (2018). "Miocene bony fishes from the Calvert, Choptank, St. Marys and Eastover Formations, Chesapeake Group, Maryland and Virginia". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (100).
- ^ Purdy, Robert W.; Schneider, Vincent P.; Applegate, Shelton P.; McLellan, Jack H.; Meyer, Robert L.; Slaughter, Bob H. (2001). "The Neogene Sharks, Rays, and Bony Fishes from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina". Biodiversity Heritage Library. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
- ^ Arratia, Gloria; Reis, Roberto E. (2025-10-16). Catfishes, a Highly Diversified Group: Volume 2: Evolution and Phylogeny. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-040-71854-4.
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