Animalia > Chordata > Siluriformes > Ictaluridae > Pylodictis > Pylodictis olivarisPylodictis olivaris (Flathead catfish; Catfish)Synonyms: Ictalurus olivaris; Pimelodus aeneus; Pimelodus lutescens; Pimelodus punctulatus; Pylodictis limosus; Pylodictus olivaris; Silurus cupreus; Silurus nebulosus; Silurus olivaris; Silurus viscosus Language: Danish; Finnish; Mandarin Chinese; Spanish The flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris), also called the mudcat, flatty, or shovelhead cat, is a large species of North American freshwater catfish. It is the only species of the genus Pylodictis. Ranging from the lower Great Lakes region to northern Mexico, they have been widely introduced and are an invasive species in some areas. The closest living relative of the flathead is the widemouth blindcat, Satan eurystomus. |
| Adult Length [1] | 5.084 feet (155 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [1] | In a nest | | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Speleophils (cavity generalist) | | Brood Guarder [1] | Yes | | Litter Size [1] | 52,000 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 20 years |  | | Adult Weight [2] | 67.722 lbs (30.718 kg) | | | Diet [3] | Carnivore | | | Female Maturity [1] | 5 years | | Male Maturity [2] | 4 years |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Amistad National Recreation Area |
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Texas, United States |
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Bandelier National Monument |
V |
8107 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
616880 |
Texas, United States |
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Buffalo National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
59947 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Chickasaw National Recreation Area |
V |
7025 |
Oklahoma, United States |
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Gauley River National Recreation Area |
V |
10157 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park |
V |
1926 |
Alabama, United States |
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Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
28351 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Lake Meredith National Recreation Area |
V |
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Texas, United States |
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Land Between the Lakes Biosphere Reserve |
V |
166264 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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New River Gorge National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
55591 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
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20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
5268 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Saint Croix International Historic Site |
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Maine, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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