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Common names: Catfish, White catfish
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: gamefish: yes;
Comments: Chesapeake Bay: common to abundant in all tributaries (Ref. 27549). Observed to be very common in the brackish waters of Lower Hudson River (Michael Mcguigan, pers.comm. 09/15). Also Ref. 10294.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott, 1980
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Common names from other countries

犀目鮰, Barbú cabezón, Hvid dværgmalle, ... more

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> Siluriformes (Catfishes) > 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.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ekologi

; sötvatten; brackvatten bottenlevande; flodvandrande (Ref. 51243). Subtropical; 43°N - 24°N, 89°W - 71°W

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North America: Rivers of the Atlantic coastal states of USA from Florida to New York.

Size / Vikt / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 95.0 cm TL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 40637); common length : 30.5 cm TL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 12193); publicerad maxvikt: 9.8 kg (Ref. 40637); rapporterad maxålder: 14 år (Ref. 72508)

Sluggish, mud-bottomed pools, open channels, and backwaters of small to large rivers; also in lakes and impoundments. Feeds on wide variety of fishes, insects and crustaceans (Ref. 27549).

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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)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 14 October 2011

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Sportfisk: ja

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5078 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00776 (0.00450 - 0.01340), b=3.09 (2.93 - 3.25), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trofisk nivå (Ref. 69278): 3.2 ±0.45 se; based on food items.

Resiliens (Ref. 120179): Mellan, lägsta populationsfördubblingstid 1,4-4,4 år (tm=3-4; tmax=14; Fec=1,000-4,000).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate vulnerability (43 of 100).

Ameiurus catus (Linnaeus, 1758)