Bowfin vs. Burbot — What's the Difference?

The bowfin (Amia calva) is a bony fish related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique.

The burbot (Lota lota) is the only gadiform (cod-like) freshwater fish. It is also known as bubbot, mariah, freshwater cod, freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, and eelpout.

A freshwater fish (Amia calva) of central and eastern North America, having a large mouth and a long dorsal fin, and producing roe that is sometimes used for caviar. Also called dogfish, mudfish; also called regionally choupique.

A freshwater food fish (Lota lota) of northern regions of the Northern Hemisphere, closely related to and resembling the cod and having a long barbel on the chin. Also called cusk, eelpout.

A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States.

A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the ling and the cusk and spawns in the winter.

A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; - called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.

Primitive long-bodies carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America

Elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth