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siluriform fish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth | ||
catfish | ||
malacopterygian, soft-finned fish any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | ||
order siluriformes, siluriformes an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes | ||
silurid, silurid fish Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin | ||
bullhead catfish, bullhead any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | ||
channel cat, channel catfish, ictalurus punctatus freshwater food fish common throughout central United States | ||
flathead catfish, goujon, pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, mudcat large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw | ||
armored catfish South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates |