silurid

Definitions of silurid

1. noun

   Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
   synonyms: silurid fish

   types:

   European catfish, Silurus glanis, sheatfish

   large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe

   Malopterurus electricus, electric catfish

   freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ

   type of:

   catfish, siluriform fish

   any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth