#2189 · 🐟 fish
Brown Bullhead
🇳🇱 Bruine dwergmeerval ·Ameiurus nebulosus
📍 White Lake State Park, West Ossipee, NH, USA
📍 325 SE Williston Rd, Gainesville, FL 32641, USA
📍 Ithaca, NY, USA
📍 Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © IHUNTA · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Alexei Poletaev · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Alexis Desmarais · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andrew Reding · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Yifei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © rc6750 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. White Lake State Park, West Ossipee, NH, USA:© Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 8. 325 SE Williston Rd, Gainesville, FL 32641, USA:© Cathy Bester · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Ithaca, NY, USA:© thepigeongirl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada:© Sian Bryson · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The brown bullhead ( Ameiurus nebulosus ) is a fish of the Ictaluridae family that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead ( Ameiurus melas ) and yellow bullhead ( Ameiurus natalis ). It was originally described as Pimelodus nebulosus by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1819, and is also referred to as Ictalurus nebulosus.
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.
- 5,998 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1819 (207 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Brown Bullhead
- Nederlands
- Bruine dwergmeerval
- scientific name
- Ameiurus nebulosus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Siluriformes
- family
- Ictaluridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 124
- sightings worldwide
- 5,998
- GBIF records in NL
- 143
- 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 58654, Wikidata Q833957, GBIF 2340989, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.