Re: NANFA-- Collecting woth cottonmouths

Mark (mbinkley_at_columbus.rr.com)
Fri, 18 May 2001 22:55:41 -0400

At 10:21 PM -0400 5/18/01, Moontanman_at_aol.com wrote:
>I don't know what kind of catfish they are but they had black barbels all
>round like a black bullhead. I don't know if any madtoms have all black
>barbels.

Bullheads have a dangling adipose fin like an ear lobe. The adipose fins
of madtoms are attached and continuous with the upper margin of the tail.

Mark
Columbus Ohio USA <))><
mbinkley_at_columbus.rr.com

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