barbels

Those spiky things are feelers called barbels that the hagfish uses to feel its way around the ocean.

Archive 2007-07-01 Doppelganger 2007

Those spiky things are feelers called barbels that the hagfish uses to feel its way around the ocean.

Your Challenge for the Day Doppelganger 2007

He greeted Otto with a scratch under the chin between his barbels.

The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

Flies danced on the dried white saliva that was caked on its chin and barbels.

The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

So by way of a counterpoint some Siluriformes stay small, are colourful, remorslessly active, have beautiful flowing sensitive barbels, prefer fish food to c**p and like to cuddle up in groups.

PodCastle » PodCastle 55: Bottom Feeding 2009

Taste buds are located not only in the mouth of the channel catfish but all over its body — more than 30,000 per square inch along its flanks, although the highest concentrations are in the mud-raking barbels.

Field and Stream Guide: The Channel Catfish 2005

The amazing thing about the clip is that the fish has been filmed with its barbels (feelers) extended out in front of it.

Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives 2005

The channel catfish uses its highly sensitive barbels to help locate food and to cautiously inspect it prior to ingestion.

Field and Stream Guide: The Channel Catfish 2005

BARBELS Sensitive barbels allow the sturgeon to identify food on the river floor or seabed as it hunts.

A Field Guide to White Sturgeon 2004

It was ugly in the face with its tiny eyes and pale barbels run out from its mouth and wagging in the current.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003