catfish

C58999
concept

A catfish is a freshwater or marine fish characterized by prominent barbels around the mouth that resemble a cat’s whiskers, which it uses to sense food in murky waters.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
catfish canonical 14

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: catfish
Generated description
A catfish is a freshwater or marine fish characterized by prominent barbels around the mouth that resemble a cat’s whiskers, which it uses to sense food in murky waters.

Instances (13)

Instance Via concept surface
Silurus glanis —
Wallago attu —
Ompok pabda —
Belodontichthys dinema —
Calophysus macropterus
linked to: Calophysus
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Tandanus tandanus —
Aspredo aspredo
linked to: Aspredo
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Ancistrus cirrhosus —
Silurus asotus —
Phractocephalus hemioliopterus
linked to: Phractocephalus
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Eutropius niloticus —
Pangasianodon gigas
linked to: Pangasianodon
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Trichomycterus nigricans —