silurus

Bangwe, and even from Urundi, with their whitebait, which they called dogara, the silurus, the perch, and other fish; there were the palm-oil merchants, principally from Ujiji and Urundi, with great five-gallon pots full of reddish oil, of the consistency of butter; there were the salt merchants from the salt-plains of

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

In the neighbouring river one of my men succeeded, in few minutes, in catching sixty fish of the silurus species the hand alone.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

There were also collected by thousands those “candirus,” a kind of small silurus, of which many are microscopic, and which so frequently make a pincushion of the calves of the bather when he imprudently ventures into their haunts.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

Its lake is about two leagues in length by three quarters of a league in breadth, and is said to be the only lake in Switzerland where that voracious fish, the _silurus_, is found.

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard

It is fringed with trees and shrubs – poplar, tamarisk, rhododendron, agnus castus, apple of Sodom – and its waters contain a great many fish – various species of capocta, the barbus canis, the cyprinodon, and a kind of catfish (silurus).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

African and tropical, such as the eel-like silurus.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Other fishes -- the silurus, malapterurus, and so on -- are likewise endowed with electric batteries for stunning and capturing their prey.

The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889

The boys, however, managed to supplement the animal food with the birds that were shot, or knocked down with kiris; and fishing became a favourite pursuit in some one or other of the rocky pools in the river-beds that they had to cross, silurus and other kinds being frequently captured with a hook and line.

Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870

They were curious fish these silurus, and, of course in happy ignorance of the meaning of angling, readily took the bait thrown to them in the deep pools; but when hooked their behaviour was almost startling, from the tremendous rushes they made in all directions.

Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870

There were also collected by thousands those _ "candirus," _ a kind of small silurus, of which many are microscopic, and which so frequently make a pincushion of the calves of the bather when he imprudently ventures into their haunts.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866