Word: punctatus
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...catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) is a repulsive-looking creature, a spiny, bewhiskered bottom scavenger that will eat nearly anything and thrives in some of the most polluted U.S. rivers. Northern fishermen usually throw catfish away in disgust, but tens of thousands of Americans, mostly in the South, consider its sweet white flesh a delicacy. This is especially so when it comes from catfish raised in the comparatively clean waters of a commercial pond...
...neighbors in Dumas, Ark., have opened the nation's first catfish-processing plant, a cooperative that will package 900,000 Ibs. of fish this year. Restaurant chains specializing in farm-grown catfish are opening up in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. In time, the taste for Ictalurus punctatus may even move north...
Three U.S. zoos, in New York, Chicago and San Diego, will soon have live reptiles that were already old-fashioned when the dinosaurs were still young. Tuataras (Sphenodon punctatus), which look like 2½-ft. lizards but are far more primitive, were plentiful round the world 200 million years ago. Now, almost unchanged, they are found only in New Zealand, that ultimate storehouse for discontinued zoological models...
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