Noodles

Turns out that almost half of all species of catfish are venomous. In a new study, they looked at species of catfish that were believed to not be poisonous and found that functional venom glands were present in the majority of species.

Now for an amusing anecdote:

Once upon a time while moving from one house to another I had to transfer my fish. I had put them all in plastic bags similar to what they use at pet stores. One of these fish was a Burmese Catfish* with dorsal and pectoral spines.

Lets just say that a bag full of water with a live fish and several holes punctured through it along with bleeding catfish-wounded finger is an interesting situation to be in.

*I say Burmese Catfish as that is what it was labelled as in the petstore I bought it from, though I doubt that was actually its common name, as I haven't found a picture of it since.