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Bagrus
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Bagrus

Bagrus is a genus of bagrid catfishes. These are relatively large catfished found in freshwater habitats in Africa, except for the virtually unknown B. tucumanus from South America, which likely is a synonym of Luciopimelodus pati.

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11 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 11 known species

Semutundu

speciesBagrus docmak

Kampoyo

speciesBagrus meridionalis

Black Nile Catfish

speciesBagrus bajad

Bagrus orientalis

speciesBagrus orientalis

Bagrus filamentosus

speciesBagrus filamentosus

Bagrus ubangensis

speciesBagrus ubangensis

Somalia Catfish

speciesBagrus urostigma

Bagrus tucumanus

speciesBagrus tucumanus

Bagrus caeruleus

speciesBagrus caeruleus

Bagrus lubosicus

speciesBagrus lubosicus

Bagrus degeni

speciesBagrus degeni

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Bagrus in Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume, Middle of the Lower Part

Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume, Middle of the Lower Part

李時珍 · 1596 · p.92

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 86820.