catfish

1. Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States;
   Often farmed (synset 107796014)
   is a type of: freshwater fish - flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
   same as: mudcat
2. Large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins (synset 102619481)
   is a type of: blennioid, blennioid fish - elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
   belongs to: anarhichas, genus anarhichas - type genus of the Anarhichadidae
   same as: wolf fish, wolffish
3. Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth (synset 102520073)
   is a type of: malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
   subtypes:

   • silurid, silurid fish - Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
   • bullhead, bullhead catfish - any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States
   • channel cat, channel catfish, ictalurus punctatus - freshwater food fish common throughout central United States
   • flathead catfish, goujon, mudcat, pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish - large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw
   • armored catfish - South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates
   • sea catfish - any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food
   belongs to: order siluriformes, siluriformes - an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes
   same as: siluriform fish

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