Bahaba
| Bahaba | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Sciaenidae |
| Genus: | Bahaba Herre, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| Otolithes (Bahaba) lini Herre, 1935[1] | |
Bahaba is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. These fishes are found in the Indo-West Pacific region.
Taxonomy
[edit]Bahaba was first proposed as a monotypic subgenus of the genus Otolithes in 1935 by the American ichthyologist Albert William Herre with its type species being Otolithes (Bahaba) lini. In 1977 Ethelwynn Trewavas treated it as a valid genus in her paper called The sciaenid fishes (croakers or drums) of the Indo-West-Pacific published in the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London and most authorities now treat the genus as valid.[1] Trewavas also stated that Herre's Otolithes lini was a junior synonym of Nibea taipingensis, which Herre had described in 1932.[2] Bahaba belongs to the family Sciaenidae in the order Acanthuriformes.[3] Some authorities place Bahaba in the subfamily Pseudosciaeninae[4] but subfamilies are not recognised within Sciaenidae by Fishes of the World.[3]
Etymology
[edit]Bahaba is the word used in the Samal language of the Sulu region of Mindanao in the Philippines for drums and croakers.[5]
Species
[edit]The currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]
- Bahaba chaptis F. Hamilton, 1822 (Chaptis bahaba)
- Bahaba taipingensis Herre, 1932 (Chinese bahaba)
Characteristics
[edit]Bahaba is distinguished from other sciaenids by the form of their swim bladder which has unbranched horn-like or tube-like appendages which start at the anterior end of the swim bladder and are directed to the rear.[6] The Chinese bahaba is the largest species, having a maximum published total length of 200 cm (79 in)[7] while that of the chaptis bahaba is 50 cm (20 in).[8]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Bahaba is found in the Indo-West Pacific with one species in the coastal Bay of Bengal,[8] one endemic to the coastal waters of southern China[7]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sciaenidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- 1 2 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bahaba". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- 1 2 Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. pp. 497–502. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ↑ Wei He; Wei-Hua Lu; Xi-Guo Li; et al. (2012). "Taxonomic status of Chinese bahaba (Bahaba taipingensis) and its phylogenetic relationship with other species in the family Sciaenidae". Mitochondrial DNA. 23 (2): 53–61. doi:10.3109/19401736.2011.653797. PMID 22397374.
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (27 April 2026). "Order ACANTHURIFORMES (part 5): Family SCIAENIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
- ↑ K. Sasaki (2001). "Sciaenidae". In Carpenter, K.E. & Neim, Volker H. (eds.). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 5: Bony fishes part 3 (Menidae to Pomacentridae) (PDF). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. FAO Rome. p. 3117.
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bahaba taipingensis". FishBase. February 2023 version.
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bahaba chaptis". FishBase. February 2023 version.