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Croaker :: Croaker (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum.

Unio :: Unio (n.) Any one of numerous species of fresh-water mussels belonging to Unio and many allied genera.

Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

Perca :: Perca (n.) A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch..

Tench :: Tench (n.) A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life..

Planorbis :: Planorbis (n.) Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form..

Graining :: Graining (n.) A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace..

Moorball :: Moorball (n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.

Taenioglossa :: Taenioglossa (n. pl.) An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water..

Naid :: Naid (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chaetopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochaeta..

Heliozoa :: Heliozoa (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule..

Bass :: Bass (n.) The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.

Widgeon :: Widgeon (n.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly..

Landlocked :: Landlocked (a.) Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon..

Trionyx :: Trionyx (n.) A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle..

Sheatfish :: Sheatfish (n.) A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid..

Rockfish :: Rockfish (n.) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.

Wall-eye :: Wall-eye (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch..

Copepoda :: Copepoda (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine..

Loach :: Loach (n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish..

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