Walking Catfish

Walking Catfish

I was in this area looking for a good spot for a cache, when I noticed something flopping at my feet. I looked down and saw a Catfish on the trail. What the heck is a catfish doing way out here? Then I remember reading about the walking Catfish but never seen one in the wild. The picture above was taking with my cell phone of the Catfish I saw.
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Identification: Walking catfish, which are scale-less, are typically a uniform shade of gray or gray-brown with many small white spots along their sides. The head is flat and wide and the body tapers to the tail. The eyes are very small and the mouth is broad with fleshy lips and numerous small pointed teeth in large bands on both the upper and lower jaw. There are four pairs of barbels, one pair each of maxillary and nasal barbels and two pairs of mandibal barbels. The fish has a lengthy dorsal and anal fin that each terminate in a lobe near the caudal fin. The pectoral fins, one on each side, have rigid spine-like elements. To move outside of water, the fish uses these "spines" and flexes its body back and forth to "walk". The walking catfish is easy to distinguish from many of the other North American catfish because it doesn't have an adipose fin.
You can read more about them Here.
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