Showing Food Channel catfish
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| Name | Channel catfish | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Ictalurus punctatus | ||||||||||
| Description | Channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, is North America's most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a "channel cat". In the United States, they are the most fished catfish species with approximately 8 million anglers targeting them per year. The popularity of channel catfish for food has contributed to the rapid growth of aquaculture of this species in the United States. | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00324 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Aquatic foods | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Fishes | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy | |||||||||||
| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Metazoa | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Chordata | ||||||||||
| Class | Actinopteri | ||||||||||
| Order | Siluriformes | ||||||||||
| Family | Ictaluridae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Ictalurus | ||||||||||
| Species | punctatus | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 163998 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Channel_catfish | ||||||||||
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| Content Reference | — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. — Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181. | ||||||||||