Definition of Ameiurus melas

1. Noun. Catfish common in eastern United States.

Exact synonyms: Horned Pout, Hornpout, Pout
Generic synonyms: Bullhead, Bullhead Catfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ameiurus Melas

Ambrosian
Ambu bag
Ambulas
Ambystoma maculatum
Ambystoma mexicanum
Ambystoma talpoideum
Ambystoma tigrinum
Amdang
Amdo Tibetan
Ameche
Ameches
Amedeo Avogadro
Amedeo Modigliano
Ameiuridae
Ameiurus
Ameiurus Melas
Amelanchier
Amelanchier alnifolia
Amelanchier bartramiana
Amele
Amelia Earhart
Amen
Amen-Ra
Amenhotep IV
Amentiferae
Amer.
Amerasian
Amerasians
Amercia

Literary usage of Ameiurus melas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1922)
"The cutaneous gustatory branches arising from the geniculate ganglion of the facial nerve of the catfish (ameiurus melas), projected upon the right side of ..."

2. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"This we stocked with catfish — ameiurus melas — locally known as "bullheads" (in New England "horned pout") brought from Silver Lake, a much larger glacial ..."

3. Smell, Taste, and Allied Senses in the Vertebrates by George Howard Parker (1922)
"On the Place of Origin and Method of Distribution of Taste-buds in ameiurus melas. Jour. Comp. Neurol., vol. 17, pp. 1-66. ..."

4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1908)
"257 ameiurus melas and nebulosus, Epibranchial placodes of . . 293 American Anthropological Association, Officers of ... 309 Folk Lore Society, ..."

5. Bulletin of the Geographic Society of Chicago by Geographic Society of Chicago (1913)
"The fish are limited to mud- and muck-preferring species, the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) and the mud minnow (Umbra limi) (106). ..."

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