"madtom" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1890, “Amblopites rupestris cavifrons (Cope). \"Red Eye.\"”, in Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, volume 8, United States Fish Commission, page 123:",
          "text": "Two specimens were taken; one very large example, 9 inches long, i a pool of Bottom Creek, and a small one in the river. The stomach of the large specimen was filled with minnows and \"Mad Toms.\"",
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          "ref": "1895 July 27, “In Appalachian Folds”, in Forest and Stream, volume 45, page 70:",
          "text": "We were fishing with \"mad toms\" for bait; that is what the local fishermen call diminative^([sic]) bullheads.",
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          "ref": "1916, Horace Kephart, Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness, volume 2:",
          "text": "On the Potomac and the Susquehanna rivers a favorite bass bait is what they call a mad-tom, which is nothing but a small yellow catfish (stone cat) with its spines cut off.",
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        "Any of the catfish of the genus Noturus of the family Ictaluridae."
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