The picture below shows Terapon jarbua, commonly known as Terapon, Terapon, Wu Ban, Chicken, Sanzhuazai, Sea Wasp, Spotted Pig and Wu Ban.
This fish is silvery white, and there is a deep line between the hard spines and the soft strips of the dorsal fin. There is a big black spot on the spine of dorsal fin. The upper and lower leaves of caudal fin have oblique black stripes. There are three arched black longitudinal bands on the side of the body. The lowest one starts from the head, passes through the center of the caudal stalk and reaches the center of the caudal fin. Dorsal fin 12 hard spines and 10 soft strips; There are 3 hard spines and 9 to 10 soft bands on the gluteal fin. The body length can reach 36 cm.
Benthic fishes belonging to inland rivers and estuaries. Xiqun lives in shallow water with a water depth of more than 20 meters, and even invades the estuary. It belongs to euryhaline and can be domesticated as freshwater culture, feeding on crustaceans and small fish.
Small and medium-sized edible fish has high economic value and is suitable for steaming, stewing and soup making. Its catch is mostly seen in summer and autumn.
Distributed in the Indian Ocean, the East Coast of Africa, the Red Sea, East Australia, Korea, Japan, South China Sea of China, Taiwan Province Strait and East China Sea, it belongs to tropical and subtropical warm-water near-bottom fish. They often live in shallow coastal waters near sand bottom, gravel bottom or reef, and can live in fresh water or seawater in Yuxian County.