Snakehead vs. Mudfish — What's the Difference?

Any of various edible freshwater predatory fishes of the family Channidae, having an elongated body with long dorsal and anal fins and large scales on the head, native to Asia and Africa and established elsewhere.

See bowfin.

See turtlehead.

Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, including:

(Slang) A person who smuggles undocumented Chinese immigrants into the United States and other countries.

All species of Neochanna

(fish) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.

Clarias spp., including Clarias anguillaris, Clarias gariepinus, Clarias agboyiensis, Clarias leviceps

(slang) A Chinese smuggler, especially one who smuggles people

Channa striata (striped snakehead)

A black person.

Heterobranchus didorsalis (African catfish)

A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead

Clarotes laticeps (widehead catfish)

A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.

Protopterus annectens (West African lungfish)

The guinea-hen flower, Fritillaria meleagris.

Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus (bagrid catfish)

A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.

The European loach.

The turtlehead.

Showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple