Meaning | Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin. |
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Synonym | silurid fish |
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Member of | Siluridae, family Siluridae | Old World catfishes |
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Narrower | European catfish, sheatfish, Silurus glanis | large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe |
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electric catfish, Malopterurus electricus | Freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ |
Broader | catfish, siluriform fish | Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth |
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Spanish | silurid, silúrido |
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Catalan | silúrid |
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