electric catfish


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Noun1.electric catfish - freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organelectric catfish - freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ
Malopterurus electricus
silurid, silurid fish - Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
genus Malopterurus, Malopterurus - electric catfish
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