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
surface form: Calophysus macropterus
Tandanus tandanus
Aspredo
surface form: Aspredo aspredo
Ancistrus cirrhosus
Silurus asotus
Phractocephalus
surface form: Phractocephalus hemioliopterus
Eutropius niloticus
Pangasianodon
surface form: Pangasianodon gigas
Trichomycterus nigricans