mudfish
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editmudfish (plural mudfishes or mudfish)
- Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:
- All species of Neochanna
- Clarias spp., including Clarias anguillaris, Clarias gariepinus, Clarias agboyiensis, Clarias leviceps
- Channa striata (striped snakehead)
- Heterobranchus didorsalis (African catfish)
- Clarotes laticeps (widehead catfish)
- Protopterus annectens (West African lungfish)
- Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus (bagrid catfish)
Derived terms
edit- African mudfish (Phractolaemus ansorgii)
- American mudfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa, South American lungfish)
- black mudfish (Neochanna diversus)
- brown mudfish (Neochanna apoda)
- Canterbury mudfish (Neochanna burrowsius)
- Chatham mudfish (Neochanna rekohua)
- chevron snakehead (Channa striata)
- common snakehead (Channa striata)
- fundulus mudfish (Neofundulus paragueyensis)
- giant mudfish (Channa micropeltes)
- Northland mudfish (Neochanna heleios)
- Orange River mudfish (Labeo capensis)
- snakehead murrel (Channa striata)
- snakehead mudfish (Channa striata)
- Tasmanian mudfish (Neochanna cleaveri)
- western mudfish (Amia calva)
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editFurther reading
edit- mudfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mudfishes in The New Student's Reference Work.