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
Even before flood waters fully receded, Tracy and Sandi Larson were back to assess the damage to their home, greeted by a snake on their front step and a bullhead swimming in the house.
From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 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
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