If you are a fish, and you live in fresh water, but you swim to the ocean to breed, then you are catadromous. This is the reverse of the best known salt- and freshwater fish, the salmon, who swims into fresh water to breed. European eels are catadromous. So a catadromous fish runs in reverse.
Anadromous fishes swim from the ocean into rivers or streams to breed.
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