Catfish
Catfish noun - Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
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Silurid
Silurid noun - Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin.
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