Next to these are placed another extensive fresh-water family, that of the catfishes (Siluridae).
Catfishes won't counted fittin' to set on de Jedges table, but us Negroes wuz 'lowed to eat all of 'em us wanted.
Catfishes mus' be mighty skace now kaze I don't know when ever I is seed a good ole river catfish a-flappin' his tail.
Many catfishes (Siluridae) carry their eggs in the mouth until hatched.
The first and most complete account of this habit of catfishes is that by Dr.
The catfishes or horned pouts (Siluridae) have a strong spine in the pectoral fin, one or both edges of this being jagged or serrated.
Thus series of maps could be drawn representing those parts of North America in which catfishes or trout or sunfishes are found in the streams.
Many of the catfishes (Siluridae) will live after lying half-dried in the dust for hours.
In some catfishes (Platystacus) the eggs adhere to the under surface of the female.
The pectoral, as a rule, is without spines, although in the catfishes and some others a single large spine may be developed.
In certain sea catfishes (Galeichthys, Conorhynchos) the male carries the eggs in his mouth, thus protecting them from the attacks of other fishes.
It is surprising that more catfishes have not established themselves in caves.
The catfishes and Amblyopsidae belong to the latter class.
There are a number of other catfishes that are taken by angling, but none are worthy of the name of game-fishes, though as food they are nearly all to be commended.
The channel-cats are often called forked-tail cats, as they are the only catfishesthat have the caudal fin deeply forked.
Unlike most of the catfishes the channel-cat is found only in clear or swift streams, never in still, muddy situations.
In Mexico allcatfishes are known as Bagre, this species as Bagre de Rio.
In the tropical seas are numerous species of catfishes belonging to Tachysurus, Arius, Galeichthys, Felichthys, and other related genera.
There is not the slightest reason for regarding the catfishes as direct descendants of the sturgeon or other Ganoid type.
Sea birds, as the pelican, which devour these catfishes are often destroyed by the sudden erection of the pectoral spines.
In the Tamagawa are many fishes: shining minnows in the white ripples, dark catfishes in the pools and eddies, and little sculpins and gobies lurking under the stones.
In the catfishes of the Old World and their relatives, the adipose fin is rudimentary or wanting.
The Sisoridæ are small catfishes found in swift mountain streams of northern India.
In all the rivers of North America east of the Rocky Mountains are found catfishes in great variety.
The presence of the adipose fin in this group and in the catfishes seems to indicate some sort of real affinity with the salmon-like forms, although there has been great change in other regards.
There is no evidence that the group of catfishes has any great antiquity, or that its members were ever so numerous and varied as at the present time.
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