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North American Freshwater Catfishes
Ictaluridae
The Ictaluridae, sometimes called ictalurids, are a family of catfish native to North America, where they are important food fish and sometimes as a sport fish. The family includes about 51 species, some commonly known as bullheads, madtoms, channel catfish, and blue catfish.
7 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 51 known species
Bullheads
genusAmeiurus
Channel and Blue Catfishes
genusIctalurus
Madtoms
genusNoturus
Flathead Catfishes
genusPylodictis
Prietella
genusPrietella
Widemouth Blindcats
genusSatan
Toothless Blindcats
genusTrogloglanis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 58655.