Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several large North American salamanders of the genus Necturus, especially N. maculosus, that live in damp regions and have conspicuous clusters of dark red external gills. Also called water dog.
- n. See hellbender.
Wiktionary
- n. An aquatic salamander of the family Proteidae.
Etymologies
- mud + puppy, because of its barking sound. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Veteran East Texas anglers long have relied on the waterdog or mudpuppy, which is the larval form of an aquatic salamander to haul in lunker largemouth bass, and crawfish, which love rocky structure, are the No. 1 live bait for smallmouths no matter where you are.”
“Yes | No | Report from mudpuppy wrote 1 week 17 hours ago”
“Yes | No | Report from lukem wrote 49 weeks 19 hours ago caught a mudpuppy in wisconsin once”
“Yes | No | Report from mudpuppy wrote 5 days 3 hours ago”
“The animal in question is no puzzle; it's a mudpuppy.”
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“It was pretty much the same for me, too – as a kid, all I wanted to do was catch that mudpuppy or find that box turtle – the good news is that time in the woods is never wasted!”
“If the soil is too hard for the American woodcock to probe, or the trees too young for nest cavities to form, or the water too stagnant for the mudpuppy to breathe, it must move on to other haunts.”
Simon & Schuster: The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
“But then again I have to remember that I live among people that also go by the popular hillbilly lore that mudpuppy salamanders, praying mantis, and walking sticks all have a lethal sting or bite and should be killed on site....”
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treeseed The Mudpuppies are a family of aquatic salamanders.
The mudpuppy family, Proteidae, is divided into two genera - the mudpuppies proper, Necturus with six North American species, and Proteus with one European species. They represent an ancient group, dating from the time of the dinosaurs.
In contrast to more familiar amphibians such as frogs, mudpuppies never lose their gills during maturation from the tadpole into the adult stage-- beneficial since they will spend their entire lives underwater.
_Wikipedia Feb 11, 2008