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Definition of Silurid fish
1. Noun. Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin.
Generic synonyms: Catfish, Siluriform Fish
Group relationships: Family Siluridae, Siluridae
Specialized synonyms: European Catfish, Sheatfish, Silurus Glanis, Electric Catfish, Malopterurus Electricus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silurid Fish
Literary usage of Silurid fish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North-west Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes by Thomas Whiffen (1915)
"Orton mentions this fish, which according to him is " a slender silurid fish (Van-
dellia) " but remarks that he never met " with one confirmatory case. ..."
2. A Naturalist on Lake Victoria: With an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the by Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter (1920)
"On Ziro Isle, in 1919, I saw the remains of a very large silurid fish, which had
evidently been dragged up on to a rock high above water by one or more ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... flattened head it is paralleled by two other vertebrates only, which, curiously,
inhabit the same parts of South America, viz. the silurid fish ..."
4. Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an by Nelson Annandale, Herbert C. Robinson (1903)
"From the mouth of a silurid fish, from pool in rice-fields.' In my previous
description I have said that the anterior legs are unarmed, but this statement ..."
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