Chinese name turtle shell climbing perch, alias: climbing perch, walking fish, over the mountain crucian carp, Bama fish, the evil fish, flying crucian carp, tree climbing fish, spiny fish, spiny crucian carp, climbing wood fish, climbing wood perch, climbing mountain perch, sunfish, sea bodhisattva, Hainan Brahma fish.

The genus Climbing Perch is distributed in Hong Kong, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Macao, Hainan Island and Yunnan Province in the lower reaches of various large and small rivers and adjacent wetlands, rice paddies, is a native fish in China. Famous for its tenacious vitality and ability to crawl on land, it was first introduced to China in 1870. It was first introduced into the aquarium near London Zoo in 1870, and is a popular and famous ornamental fish overseas.

Turtle Shell Climbing Perch is a small fish in the family of Climbing Perch, a perennial, group or solitary, diurnal, omnivorous partial carnivorous native freshwater fish, adults and juvenile fish are free-swimming animals near the surface of the water, the main intake of small aquatic animals, including earthworms, insects, small fish, and duckweed and some fresh water plants, etc. The main aquatic animals include earthworms, insects, small fish, and floating weeds and fresh water plants. They live in static, slow-moving, silty water bodies.

When the living environment is polluted, the water quality deteriorates and stinks, other fish can not survive the death of one after another, this small fish is still tenacious, but it does not like to live in the polluted water, whenever the water level rises after heavy rains, the fish will collectively climb up the shore to find a good new environment to live. Often rely on swinging gill covers, pectoral fins, turn over and other ways to climb over the embankment, slopes, moving to new waters, or lurking in the mud.

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