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mad·tom

(măd′tŏm′)
n.
Any of several small freshwater North American catfishes of the genus Noturus, having poison glands at the base of the pectoral and dorsal fin spines.

[mad + tom(cat) (probably so called because the fish swim in an excited zigzag manner when agitated).]
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madtom

(ˈmædˈtɒm)
n
(Animals) any of various North American catfish
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mad•tom

(ˈmædˈtɒm)

n.
any of several small North American freshwater catfishes of the genus Noturus, having a poisonous pectoral spine.
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Effects of rearing density on the growth of larval madtom catfish, Noturus flavipinnis, raised in captivity.
(2007) reported increased susceptibility of bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus, to predation at power densities of ~1,050 [micro]W/[cm.sup.3], and Miranda and Kidwell (2010) induced injury (mortality, spinal injury, and tissue hemorrhage) to four nongame species (creek chub, Semotilus atromaculatus; bluntnose minnow, Pimephales notatus; tadpole madtom, Noturus gyrinus; and redfin darter, Etheostoma whipplei) at higher power densities between 1.0 x [10.sup.5] and 6.8 x [10.sup.7] [mu]W/[cm.sup.3].
A revision of the catfish genus Noturus Rafinesque, with an analysis of higher groups in the Ictaluridae.
promelas), Creek Chub (Semotilus atromaculatus), White Sucker (Catostomus commersonii), Black Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead (Ameiurus natalis), Blackstripe Topminnow (Fundulus notatus), Tadpole Madtom (Noturus gyrinus), Green Sunfish, Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), and Longear Sunfish (L.
The specimens were identified as brindled madtom (Noturus miurus), a species he described just ten years earlier.
Willow cats are tadpole madtoms (Noturus gyrinus), not to be confused with young bullheads, which were sold as "bullhead minnows" as early as the 1920s.
First record of the ictalurid catfish, Noturus phaeus, from Arkansas.
(1) The four listed fish are the spotfin chub (Cyprinella monacha), yellowfin madtom (Noturus flavipinnis), smoky madtom (Noturus baileyi), and duskytail darter (Etheostoma percnurum).
(8.) Parmley D and Hall J: Observations on the habitat requirements of the tadpole madtom (Noturus gyrinus) in central Georgia.
Three species (black bullhead, Ameiurus melas, tadpole madtom, Noturus gyrinus, and sea catfish, Arius felis) were represented by single individuals.
We captured 14 species of fish over the course of the study: bluehead chub (Cyprinidae: Nocomis leptocephalus), creek chub (Cyprinidae: Semotilus atromaculatus), rosyside dace (Cyprinidae: Clinostomus funduloides), redbreast sunfish (Centrarchidae: Lepomis auritus), yellow bullhead (Ictaluridae: Ameiurus natalis), American eel (Anguillidae: Anguilla rostrata), swallowtail shiner (Cyprinidae: Notropis procne), white shiner (Cyprinidae: Notropis albeolus), margined madtom (Ictaluridae: Noturus insignis), green sunfish (Centrarchidae: Lepomis cyanellus), bluegill sunfish (Centrarchidae: Lepomis macrochirus), mosquitofish (Poeciliidae: Gambusia affinis), warmouth sunfish (Centrarchidae: Lepomis gulosus), and a darter (Percidae: Percina spp.) (Menhinick 1991).
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