siluriform fish

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

siluriform fish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouthcatfishmalacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygiiorder Siluriformes, Siluriformes - an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishessilurid, silurid fish - Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal finbullhead catfish, bullhead - any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United Stateschannel cat, channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus - freshwater food fish common throughout central United Statesflathead catfish, goujon, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, mudcat - large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jawarmored catfish - South American catfish having the body covered with bony platessea catfish - any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food