Flathead Catfish (Pylodictis olivaris)
Photo courtesy USFWS
Other Names Yellow Cat, Opelousa Cat, Pied Cat, Mississippi Cat, Mud Cat, Shovelhead Cat Description As the common name suggests, this catfish has a flat head, ...
Flathead Catfish
The Flathead Catfish is also called a 'mud cat' or a 'yellow cat'. It has a flat head and is mostly yellowish brown in color with a lighter yellow belly and black spots over its entire body.
Flathead Catfish : (Pylodictis olivaris)
Description
Native to the lower Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basin. Introduced into Arizona in 1940's. Back and sides mottled, dark-brown to yellow-brown; belly is yellowish-white.
Flathead Snake (Tantilla gracilis)
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Flathead Snake (Tantilla gracilis)
Description
Habitats
Habits and Life History
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Flathead Catfish:
Appearance:
A flat head, tiny eyes, squarish tail and protruding lower jaw distinguish flathead from other. They are yellow-brown, usually mottled above, with a creamy colored belly.
Flathead catfish love to hang out near sunken logs in the backwaters and pools of big, muddy, slow rivers. They are commonly found in the lower St. Croix, Mississippi and Minnesota rivers.
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Description – Hainan flathead toad
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Flathead Leaf-toed Gecko
Notes on this species:
This species is quite similar to the cosmopolitan Hemidactylus frenatus. The identities of various gecko populations in Madagascar hasn't been thoroughly studied, so this might end up being H.
Flathead Catfish
The flathead catfish is the only catfish in the USA with its head flattened between the eyes and whose lower jaw is longer than the upper jaw. This is also the only large catfish with a square tail.
Flathead catshark (Apristurus macrorhynchus) ' more
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Mugil cephalus (Flathead mullet)
[edit] Perciformes
Abudefduf saxatilis (Sergeant Major)
Acanthurus triostegus (Manini)
Anarhichas lupus (Seawolf)
Centropristis striata (Black sea bass)
Chaetodon capistratus (foureye butterflyfish) ...
A Celebes Flathead at Flores, Indonesia
A Celebration of National Aborigines Week at the Australian Museum, Sydney, 1983.
A Checkerboard Wrasse at Cormorant Pass
A Checkerboard Wrasse at Mantis Reef
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Onigocia spinosa, Devil Flathead
Ophichthus bonaparti, Napoleon Snake Eel
Ophichthus altipennis, Black-finned Snake Eel
Ophichthus cephalozona, Blacksaddle Snake Eel
Ophichthus ophis, Spotted Snake Eel
Ophiopholis aculeata, Daisy Brittle Star ...
Mammal associations and habitats of the Flathead Lake region, Montana. Ecology. 4(3): 247-260. [65287] 33. Edwards, R. Y. 1954. Fire and the decline of a mountain caribou herd. The Journal of Wildlife Management. 18(4): 521-526. [8394] 34.
Their size range is smaller than the blue or flathead catfish but their populations are greater.
the flatheaded apple-tree borer, a serious pest of many shade and fruit trees; the roundheaded apple-tree borer; and the bronze birch, locust, elm, shot-hole, and poplar borers. Other boring insects are moths that are harmful in the larval stage, e.
SUBORDER PLATYCEPHALOIDEI
Includes deepwater flatheads, searobins, armored gurnards, spiny flatheads, flatheads
SUBORDER ANOPLOPOMATOIDEI
sablefishes ...
Bison can be found in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, National Bison Range in the Flathead Valley of Montana, the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Oklahoma, the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in northern Nebraska, ...
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Newman's Knob-scaled Lizard - Xenosaurus newmanorum
Flathead Knob-scaled Lizard - Xenosaurus platyceps
Pena's Knob-scaled Lizard - Xenosaurus penai
Pallid Knob-scaled Lizard - Xenosaurus rectocollaris ...
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The blue catfish has a blue back, paler flanks and silver white body. The channel catfish is similar but its body color is overlaid with dark spots and blotches. The flathead catfish is a mottled brown color. The white catfish is silvery white.
Foremost among these are many species which live their whole lives on the sea or ocean floor, particularly those species which have partially sedentary lives such as Blennies, Weavers and Flatheads.
Fishes of this type include many scorpionfishes , flatheads , hawkfishes , sea basses , stonefishes , stargazers, flatfishes , frogfishes, and lizardfishes. (Bertelson and Pietsch, 1998; Ferraris, 1998; Helfman, et al.
 See also: Catfish, Snake, Coral, Angler, Burro
  
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