| NOUN | animal | silurid, silurid fish | 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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| 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 | |
| Member of | Siluridae, family Siluridae | Old World catfishes |
| Narrower | European catfish, sheatfish, Silurus glanis | large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe |
| 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 |
| Spanish | silurid, silúrido | |
| Catalan | silúrid | |
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