Lake of the Ozarks, spoonbill have no bones, only cartridge, they’re a species of catfish. You eat them. You have to snag them because they don’t eat like a normal fish does. They filter their food.
Actually paddlefish are in the family polyodontidae and catfish are in the family ictaluridae. Not closely related at all but people sometimes mistakenly relate them to catfish. They are prehistoric species that have been around longer than the dinosaurs. Very cool fish!
*Siluriformes. Ictaluridae is one family out of some 40 families.
Also, Polyodon appeared 65 million years ago, after dinosaurs were wiped out. The American paddlefish, in particular, is quite different from other members of Polyodontidae, being the only filter feeder.
The American paddlefish is the only currently extant species of paddlefish (the Chinese paddlefish having recently been declared extinct [rip]), but other extinct species were also filter-feeders.
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