Genus of fishes
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
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
Bahaba is the word used in the Samal language of the Sulu region of Mindanao in the Philippines for drums and croakers.[ 5]
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[ 6]
Characteristics
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.[ 7] The Chinese bahaba is the largest species, having a maximum published total length of 200 cm (79 in) while that of the chaptis bahaba is 50 cm (20 in) and the spine bahaba is 40 cm (16 in).[ 6]
Distribution and habitat
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[ 9] and the third in Southeast Asia .[ 10]
References
^ a b Eschmeyer, William N. ; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sciaenidae" . Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 22 April 2023 .
^ Eschmeyer, William N. ; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bahaba " . Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 24 April 2023 .
^ a b J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497– 502. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6 . Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-04-24 .
^ 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. (9 March 2023). "Series Eupercaria (Incertae sedis): Families Callanthidae, Centrogenyidae, Dinopercidae, Emmelichthyidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Parascorpididae, Sciaenidae and Sillagidae" . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 24 April 2023 .
^ a b Froese, Rainer ; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Bahaba " . FishBase . February 2023 version.
^ 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.
^ Froese, Rainer ; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bahaba chaptis " . FishBase . February 2023 version.
^ Froese, Rainer ; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bahaba taipingensis " . FishBase . February 2023 version.
^ Froese, Rainer ; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bahaba polykladiskos " . FishBase . February 2023 version.