mudfish

English

Etymology

From mud +‎ fish.

Noun

mudfish (plural mudfishes or mudfish)

1. Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:
   1. All species of Neochanna
   2. Clarias spp., including Clarias anguillaris, Clarias gariepinus, Clarias agboyiensis, Clarias leviceps
   3. Channa striata (striped snakehead)
   4. Heterobranchus didorsalis (African catfish)
   5. Clarotes laticeps (widehead catfish)
   6. Protopterus annectens (West African lungfish)
   7. Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus (bagrid catfish)

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

Translations

Neochanna species

• Kapampangan: bulig
• Maori: waikaka, hauhau
• Portuguese: alcaraz m
• Tagalog: dalag

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• mudhifs