order siluriformes
Noun
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An order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes (synset 102519800)
is a type of: animal order - the order of animalsmember holonym:
- catfish, siluriform fish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
- family siluridae, siluridae - Old World catfishes
- ameiuridae, family ameiuridae - North American catfishes
- family laricariidae, laricariidae - armored catfish
- ariidae, family ariidae - sea catfishes
belongs to: malacopterygii, superorder malacopterygii - an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rayssame as: siluriformes
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