mudfish

English

Etymology

mud +‎ fish

Noun

mudfish (plural mudfishes or mudfish)

  1. Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, including:
    1. All species of Neochanna
    2. Clarias spp., including Clarias anguillaris, Clarias gariepinus, Clarias agboyiensis, Clarias leviceps
    3. Channa striata
    4. Heterobranchus didorsalis
    5. Clarotes laticeps
    6. Protopterus annectens
    7. Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus

Derived terms

  • 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)
  • fundulus mudfish (Neofundulus paragueyensis)
  • Northland mudfish (Neochanna heleios)
  • Orange River mudfish (Labeo capensis)
  • snakehead mudfish (Channa striata)
  • Tasmanian mudfish (Neochanna cleaveri)
  • western mudfish (Amia calva)

Translations

Neochanna species
  • Maori: waikaka, hauhau
  • Tagalog: dalag

Further reading

  • mudfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Mudfishes in The New Student's Reference Work.

Anagrams

  • mudhifs
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