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Any of several small freshwater catfishes (family Ameiuridae) that are widely distributed in the central and eastern United States and have poisonous pectoral spines capable of inflicting painful wounds.

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  • I once caught a slender madtom that was almost 5 inces long.
  • The banded sculpin and slender madtom occur in small streams, especially where aquatic macrophytes are present, and the southern redbelly dace inhabits headwaters.
  • Other threatened fish species include smoky madtom Noturus baileyi, yellow-fin madtom N. flavipinnis (V) and spotfin chub Hybopsis nonacha, which are currently...
  • Fish communities also vary by stream system, helping to differentiate the Wabash – Ohio Bottomlands (72a) and Wabash Lowlands (72b) from the Upper Mississippi Alluvial Plain...
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