Bagre Cloquet, 1816

MP 100, BI 1, ML 100

(Figs 1–3, 4A, 6)

Type species: Silurus bagre Linnaeus, 1766 .

Diagnosis

That of the Bagreinae, above.

Included species

Bagre bagre Linnaeus, 1766

Bagre filamentosus Swainson, 1839

Bagre marinus Mitchill, 1815

Bagre panamensis Gill, 1863

Bagre pinnimaculatus Steindachner, 1876 .

Habitat and distribution: Predominantly marine, eastern and western America (Fig. 4).

Remarks

The MP and ML analyses corroborate the morphological diagnosis, species composition, and the hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships of Bagre presented in previous morphological studies (Marceniuk and Menezes 2007, Marceniuk et al. 2012). With different interpretations of phylogenetic relationships, Kailola (2004), Betancur-R. et al. (2007), and Betancur-R. (2009) show the same definition and species composition as found in the total-evidence analysis.