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The bowfin (Amia calva) is a ray-finned fish native to North America. Common names include mudfish , mud pike , dogfish , grindle , grinnel , swamp trout , and choupique . It is regarded as a relict , being one of only two surviving species of the Halecomorphi , a group of fish that first appeared during the Early Triassic , around 250 million ...
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
Bowfin (Amia calva), North America; Channa or snakehead, a genus of predatory fish in Asia; Channa striata, a species of snakehead fish in Asia; Clarias anguillaris, African airbreathing catfish; Misgurnus, a genus of true loaches found in Europe and Asia; Orange River mudfish (Labeo capensis), southern Africa; Parachanna, a genus of snakeheads ...
Amia ocellicauda, the eyespot bowfin, is a species of bowfin native to North America. Originally described by John Richardson from Lake Huron in 1836, it was synonymized with Amia calva until genetic work in 2022 revealed them to be separate species. [ 1 ]
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Common name Scientific name Picture Habitat Notes Acipenseridae (family) Lake sturgeon: Acipenser fulvescens: Bottom of lakes and big rivers over sand, gravel, or rock bottom Endangered Amiidae (family) Bowfin: Amia calva: Sloughs, sluggish rivers to medium rivers with moderate flow Anguillidae (family) American eel: Anguilla rostrate
The flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris), also called by several common names including mudcat or shovelhead cat, is a large species of North American freshwater catfish in the family Ictaluridae. It is the only species of the genus Pylodictis .
Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Channa micropeltes in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [2]. Channa micropeltes, giant snakehead, giant mudfish or toman harimau, is among the largest species in the family Channidae, capable of growing to 1.3 m (4.3 ft) in length and a weight of 20 kg (44 lb). [3]