Paddlefish vs. Spoonbill

Paddlefishnoun

Any of several primitive fish, of the family Polyodontidae, that have a long snout shaped like a paddle.

Paddlefishnoun

A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.

Paddlefishnoun

primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout

Paddlefish

Paddlefish (family Polyodontidae) are basal Chondrostean ray-finned fish. They have been referred to as because they have evolved with few morphological changes since the earliest fossil records of the Early Cretaceous, 120 to 125 million years ago.

Spoonbillnoun

Any of various large, long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, which also includes the ibises, that have a large, flat, spatulate bill.

Spoonbillnoun

(US) A species of fish, Polyodon spathula, native to the Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri river basin, or extinct close relatives.

Spoonbillnoun

Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.

Spoonbillnoun

The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.

Spoonbillnoun

wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon

Spoonbill

Spoonbills are a genus, Platalea, of large, long-legged wading birds. The spoonbills have a global distribution, being found on every continent except Antarctica.