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Ictaluridae (North American freshwater catfishes)
Etymology: Ameiurus: Greek, a = without + Greek, meiouros, -os, -on = without tail (Ref. 45335); nebulosus: nebulosus meaning clouded, in relation to mottled and grey coloring (Ref. 1998).
More on author: Lesueur.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
; eau douce démersal; potamodrome (Ref. 126106); profondeur 0 - 12 m (Ref. 1998). Subtropical; 0°C - 37°C (Ref. 35682); 54°N - 25°N, 104°W - 61°W (Ref. 86798)
North America: Atlantic and Gulf Slope drainages from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in Canada to Mobile Bay in Alabama in USA; St. Lawrence-Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and Mississippi River basins from Quebec west to southeastern Saskatchewan in Canada, and south to Louisiana, USA. Introduced into several countries. Several countries report adverse ecological impact after introduction.
Longueur à la première maturité / Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm 26.6, range 20 - 33 cm
Max length : 55.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 40637); common length : 25.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 556); poids max. publié: 2.7 kg (Ref. 40637); âge max. reporté: 9 années (Ref. 59043)
Épines dorsales (Total) : 1; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 6 - 7; Épines anales: 1. Caudal fin with 18-19 rays.
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.
Adults occur in pools and sluggish runs over soft substrates in creeks and small to large rivers. Also found in impoundments, lakes, and ponds (Ref. 86798). They rarely enter brackish waters (Ref. 1998). They are nocturnal feeders that feed on mollusks, insects, leeches, crayfish and plankton, worms, algae, plant material, fishes, eggs of least cisco, herring and lake trout (Ref. 1998). Juveniles (3-6 cm) feed mostly on chironomid larvae, cladocerans, ostracods, amphipods, bugs and mayflies (Ref. 1998). Can tolerate high carbon dioxide and low oxygen concentrations and temperatures up to 31.6 °C although experiments show upper lethal temp. to be 37.5 °C; resistant to domestic and industrial pollution (Ref. 1998). They have been observed to bury itself in mud to escape adverse environmental conditions (Ref. 1998). Prepared hot-smoked and also cooked in various ways (Ref. 1998).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Nests are built by one or both sexes. After a period of caressing each other with their barbels, male and female settle over the nest, face opposite directions (while maintaining body contact) and spawn. Although eggs are cared for by one or both parents, there have been reports of parents eating their own eggs. Caring entails fanning by the paired fins, moving and stirring by the barbels, and may be picked up and ejected from the mouth; this ensures hatching.
Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 663p. (Ref. 86798)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Potential pest
Utilisations par l'homme
Pêcheries: intérêt commercial mineur; Aquaculture: commercial; pêche sportive: oui
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 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=0.00832 (0.00640 - 0.01080), b=3.12 (3.05 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.7 ±0.1 se; based on diet studies. |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Milieu, temps minimum de doublement de population : 1,4 à 4,4 années (K=0.47; tm=3; tmax=8). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate vulnerability (38 of 100). 🛈 |
Catégorie de prix (Ref. 80766) |
Unknown.
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