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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Sciaenidae |
| Genus: | Bahaba Herre, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| Otolithes (Bahaba) lini Herre, 1935[1]
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Taxonomy
editBahaba 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
editBahaba is the word used in the Samal language of the Sulu region of Mindanao in the Philippines for drums and croakers.[5]
Species
editThe currently recognized species in this genus are:[6]
- Bahaba chaptis F. Hamilton, 1822 (Chaptis bahaba)
- Bahaba polykladiskos Bleeker, 1897 (spine bahaba)
- Bahaba taipingensis Herre, 1932 (Chinese bahaba)
Characteristics
editBahaba 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
editBahaba 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
edit- ^ 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.