The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Amia \Am"i*a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a kind of tunny.] (Zool.)
   A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to
   North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish
   in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See
   Bowfin.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Amia
    n 1: type genus of the Amiidae [syn: Amia, genus Amia]