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Ameiurus catus (White catfish; Catfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ameiurus catus , also known as the white catfish or white bullhead, is a member of the family Ictaluridae of the order Siluriformes.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  37 inches (95 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  In a nest
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Speleophils (cavity generalist)
Brood Guarder [1]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  4,000
Maximum Longevity [1]  14 years
Migration [3]  Potamodromous
Adult Weight [2]  11.823 lbs (5.363 kg)
Diet [3]  Omnivore, Detritivore
Female Maturity [1]  3 years 6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Dorosoma cepedianum (American gizzard shad)[4]
Neomysis awatschensis[4]

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[4]
Morone saxatilis (Striper bass)[4]
Pandion haliaetus (Osprey)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Alloglossidium kenti[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0