Mudfish

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title: "Mudfish" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public topic_path: "uncategorized" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudfish" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Mudfish most commonly refers to species of fish capable of inhabiting low-oxygen, often muddy waterways. The following species are referred to as "mudfish";

Fish

• Bowfin (Amia calva), North America
• Ceratodontiformes, lungfish suborder
  • Protopterus, the genus of African lungfish containing four species
  • Lepidosiren paradoxa, the South American lungfish
• Channidae, the snakehead family
  • Channa, Asian snakeheads
    • Channa striata, also known as the striped snakehead
  • Parachanna, African snakeheads
• Clarias anguillaris, African airbreathing catfish
• Misgurnus, a genus of true loaches found in Europe and Asia
• Orange River mudfish (Labeo capensis), southern Africa
• Neochanna, a fish genus native to New Zealand and south-eastern Australia.

Other uses

• Mudfish, a poetry journal founded by Jill Hoffman

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