WoRMS taxon details
Ameiurus Rafinesque, 1820
154198 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154198)
accepted
Genus
Ameirus · unaccepted (misspelling)
Amiurus Agassiz, 1846 · unaccepted (unjustified emendation)
- Species Ameiurus catus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rafinesque, C. S. (1820). Fishes of the Ohio River. [Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Part 7]. <em>Western Review and Miscellaneous Magazine: a monthly publ., devoted to literature and science, Lexington, KY.</em> v. 2 (no. 6): 355-363. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Ameiurus Rafinesque, 1820. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154198 on 2026-06-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Rafinesque, C. S. (1820). Fishes of the Ohio River. [Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Part 7]. <em>Western Review and Miscellaneous Magazine: a monthly publ., devoted to literature and science, Lexington, KY.</em> v. 2 (no. 6): 355-363. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ameiurus)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ameiurus RAD118381-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ameiurus RAD118381-002)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ameiurus)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ameiurus RAD118381-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ameiurus RAD118381-002)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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