This week, lets really stick our hands into the mouth of knowledge! Reallyyyy reach blindly in there. Maybe, if we're lucky, we'll even catch a big one.

References

Catfish Fax

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Pangasianodon gigas" in FishBase.

Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.

Lundberg, John G.; Friel, John P. (20 January 2003). "Siluriformes". Tree of Life Web Project

Robins, Robert H. "Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Walking Catfish". Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29.

Noodling

Deborah A. Salazar (2002). "Noodling: An American Folk Fishing Technique". The Journal of Popular Culture. 35 (4): 145–155. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.2002.3504_145.x

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/11/killer-catfish-american-myths-of-monstrous-man-eating-catfish/

Piraiba

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2007). "Brachyplatystoma filamentosum" in FishBase. Apr 2007 version.

Petrere, Miguel Jr.; Barthem, Ronaldo Borges; Córdoba, Edwin Agudelo; Gómez, Bernardo Corrales (2004). "Review of the large catfish fisheries in the upper Amazon and the stock depletion of piraíba (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum Lichtenstein)" (PDF). Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 14 (4): 403–414.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160104-does-the-candiru-fish-really-eat-human-penises

Goonch

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Bagarius yarrelli" in FishBase.

"Goonch Catfish". Animal Planet. 2014-04-15.

Wels Catfish

Cucherousset, J.; Boulêtreau, S. P.; Azémar, F. D. R.; Compin, A.; Guillaume, M.; Santoul, F. D. R. (2012). Steinke, Dirk, ed. ""Freshwater Killer Whales": Beaching Behavior of an Alien Fish to Hunt Land Birds". PLoS ONE. 7 (12): e50840. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050840

Yong, Ed. "The catfish that strands itself to kill pigeons". Discover Magazine.

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/cryptozoology/the-mysterious-wels-catfish/

Namazu

Smits, Gregory (Summer 2006). "Shaking up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints" (PDF). Journal of Social History. 39 (4): 1045–1078. doi:10.1353/jsh.2006.0057.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/namazu-the-earthshaker/

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