bullhead

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Fish passage has also been opened for other species recorded in the river, including the critically endangered European eel as well as grayling, trout, lamprey, minnow, stone loach, and bullhead.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

McNeish, who has examined the fish carcasses since late August, has identified non-native species including bass, sunfish, bullhead catfish and mosquitofish.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

One fish, a brown bullhead, had the astounding concentration of twenty-five hundred parts per million.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017

Paul uses approved bait to pursue catfish in South Dakota waters, but he said other live bait fish are harder to keep alive than the hardy bullhead.

From Washington Times • Jan. 21, 2015

A bullhead can immediately identify the water in which a recent adversary has been swimming, and he can distinguish between this fish and all others in the school.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas