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Ictaluridae (North American freshwater catfishes)
Etymology: Ameiurus: Greek, a = without + Greek, meiouros, -os, -on = without tail (Ref. 45335); catus: catus, meaning cat (Ref. 10294).
More on author: Linnaeus.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
; agua dulce; salobre demersal; potamodromo (Ref. 126106). Subtropical; 43°N - 24°N, 89°W - 71°W
North America: Rivers of the Atlantic coastal states of USA from Florida to New York.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 95.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 40637); common length : 30.5 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 12193); peso máximo publicado: 9.8 kg (Ref. 40637); edad máxima reportada: 14 años (Ref. 72508)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Adults inhabit sluggish, mud-bottomed pools, open channels, and backwaters of small to large rivers; also in lakes and impoundments. They feed on wide variety of fishes, insects and crustaceans (Ref. 27549).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Hardman, M. and L.M. Page, 2003. Phylogenetic relationships among bullhead catfishes of the genus Ameiurus (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae). Copeia 2003(1):20-33. (Ref. 54507)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: pesquerías de subsistencia; pesca deportiva: si
Herramientas
Informes especiales
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5078 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00759 (0.00437 - 0.01316), b=3.09 (2.93 - 3.25), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
3.2 ±0.45 se; based on food items. |
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Generation time |
4.5 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies. |
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179) |
Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (tm=3-4; tmax=14; Fec=1,000-4,000). |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate vulnerability (43 of 100). 🛈 |
Categoría de precios (Ref. 80766) |
Unknown.
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Nutrientes (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 52.8 [32.4, 125.6] mg/100g; Iron = 1.02 [0.65, 1.75] mg/100g; Protein = 17.3 [15.4, 19.2] %; Omega3 = 0.35 [0.20, 0.64] g/100g; Selenium = 28.3 [16.2, 56.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 7.05 [2.98, 16.53] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.758 [0.538, 1.027] mg/100g (wet weight); |