In the neighbouring river one of my men succeeded, in few minutes, in catching sixty fish of the silurus species the hand alone.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
Its lake is about two leagues in length by three quarters of a league in breadth, and is said to be the only lake in Switzerland where that voracious fish, the silurus, is found.
"A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium"
Richard Boyle Bernard
From the still water of the lake, close to the walls of Colombo, there were two species of Eleotris, one silurus with barbels, and two Malacopterygians, which appear to be Bagri.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent