Net, not cat catch.The Baures Indian pictured in "Massive fishery resurfaces in Amazon" (SN: 11/11/00, p. 308) is not carrying "an impaled armored catfish Noun 1. armored catfish - South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates siluriform fish, catfish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth ." First, the object on the pole is suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. , not impaled. Second, fish have mouths, eyes, gill slits gill slit n. One of several rudimentary invaginations in the embryonic surface, present during development of air-breathing vertebrates and corresponding to the functional gill slits of aquatic species. , fins, and streamlined bodies. The object was drawn in detail but has none of these features. This supposed catfish catfish, common name applied to members of the freshwater fish families constituting the suborder Nematognathi. The catfish is related to the sucker and the minnow, and like them has a complex set of bones forming a sensitive hearing apparatus. looks more like a net that could be stretched out and supported by the pole. Send communications to: Editor, SCIENCE NEWS 1719 N Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 or scinews @ sciserv.org All letters subject to editing. |
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