#2324 · 🐟 fish
Yellow Bullhead
🇳🇱 Gele dwergmeerval ·Ameiurus natalis
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what is it?
The yellow bullhead ( Ameiurus natalis ) is a species of bullhead catfish that is a ray-finned fish that lacks scales.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,719 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1819 (207 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow Bullhead
- Nederlands
- Gele dwergmeerval
- scientific name
- Ameiurus natalis
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Siluriformes
- family
- Ictaluridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,719
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1819 by Charles Alexandre Lesueur
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Ictaluridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 58657, Wikidata Q536070, GBIF 2340969, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.