Meaning | Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth. |
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Synonym | siluriform fish |
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Member of | Siluriformes, order Siluriformes | An order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes |
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Narrower | armored catfish | South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates |
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bullhead, bullhead catfish | Any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States |
channel catfish, channel cat, Ictalurus punctatus | Freshwater food fish common throughout central United States |
flathead catfish, mudcat, goujon, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, Pylodictus olivaris | large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw |
sea catfish | Any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders |
silurid, silurid fish | Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin |
Broader | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
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Spanish | bagre, barbo, siluriforme, siluriformes, siluro |
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Catalan | siluriforme, silur |
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