Bahaba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Bahaba in FishBase. February 2023 version.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2023). "Bahaba chaptis" in FishBase. February 2023 version.
  9. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2023). "Bahaba taipingensis" in FishBase. February 2023 version.
  10. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2023). "Bahaba polykladiskos" in FishBase. February 2023 version.
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