duckbill cat

English

Alternative forms

duck-bill cat

Noun

duckbill cat (plural duckbill cats)

Polyodon spathula
- 1880, Mollusca, Crustacea, Vertebrata‎, page 1004:
  Polyodon spathula Walbaum (“Duck-Bill Cat”). — This fish, which is sometimes called “paddle fish,” from the peculiar […] The “duck-bill” is very abundant in the lower Ohio, so much so that it is often a nuisance to fishermen who use seines.
- 1892, The American Angler‎, volume 22, page 89:
  Taking up the fishes of American waters, striatum, as previously scheduled, we now reach the duck-bill catfish {Polyodon spathula)
- 1911, United States. Bureau of the Census, United States. Bureau of Fisheries, Fisheries of the United States, 1908‎, page 75:
  The paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), locally known as "spoonbill," "duckbill cat," and "shovelfish, " is found in all the larger streams of the Mississippi Valley

Synonyms

(Polyodon spathula): paddlefish, shovelfish, spoonbill, duck-bill catfish, Mississippi paddlefish, spadefish, spoonbill cat, spoonbill catfish

Further reading

duckbill cat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Polyodon spathula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Polyodon spathula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
duckbill cat at Fishbase

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