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Ariidae (sea catfish): All paternal mouthbrooders
Bagridae (Bagrid catfish): One species of biparental mouthbrooders
Cichlidae (cichlids): Numerous species either paternal, maternal, and biparental mouthbrooders ...
Other Names Sea Catfish, Tourist Trout Description Hardhead catfish have six rounded barbels that stick out from their chins like whiskers. These barbels help the catfish find crabs, fish and shrimp in the muddy bays where they live.
The great hammerhead shark prefers to feed on stingrays and other batoids, groupers, and sea catfishes; it also preys on other small bony fishes, crabs, squid, other sharks, rays, and lobsters.
Marine catfish found during the summer in bays and harbors of the Atlantic and Gulf states include the 2-ft (61-cm) gaff-topsail catfish, named for its long, ribbonlike pectoral and dorsal fins, and the smaller sea catfish, a very common trash fish.
sea catfishes, mullets, puffers and stingrays). Though algal species are occasionally found within their stomachs, nurse sharks are not considered omnivores.
schilbeid catfishes, pangasid catfishes, torrent catfishes, loach catfishes, stream catfishes, parakysid catfishes, sisorid catfishes, labyrinth catfishes, airsac catfishes, squarehead catfishes, olyrid catfishes, electric catfishes, sea catfishes, ...
 See also: Catfish, Diver, Shrimp, Mullet, Barbel
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