Grouper is also known as blackfish

, group of fish, stick, raw fish, snakehead fish, filial piety fish, ink head fish, etc., its meat is delicate, meat flavor, less spiny meat, per 100 grams of fish meat containing 19.8 grams of protein, 1.4 grams of fat, 1.2 grams of carbohydrates. Nutritional value is very high, there are complementary spleen and water, remove blood stasis and birth new, clearing heat and wind, tonifying the liver and kidneys and other functions. Coupled with the grouper meat soup sweet and no fishy flavor, in the southern region of China, grouper soup has always been regarded as a recovery from illness and physical weakness of the nourishing treasures.

Chinese name

Grouper

Alias

Blackfish, groupers, crowbars, raw fish, snakeheads, filial piety, inkheads, etc.

Boundary

Animal kingdom

Entermind

Perch

Suborder

Perch suborder

Climbing perch

Family

Snakeheads

Snakeheads

Snakeheads

Snakeheads

Perch family

Snakeheads Channidae

Notes

bān yú

1 Appearance Edit

Spotted fish belong to the order Scleractinia, order Perchiformes, suborder Climbing Perches, family Channaeidae, and genus Channa. The main species farmed in China are snakeheads, spotted snakeheads and their hybrids, while spotted fish is the common name for all three of them.

Snakehead

1, snakehead morphology characteristics of the body in front of the cylindrical, the rear lateral compression; general body length of 25-40 centimeters. The head is long, slightly flattened at the front and slightly elevated at the back. The color of the body is gray-black, the back of the body and the top of the head are darker, the abdomen is light white, the sides of the body each have irregular black patches, and the top of the head each has 2 rows of black stripes. The dorsal fin is very long, almost connected to the caudal fin, without hard spines, and begins above the base of the pectoral fin. Ventral fins short, pectoral fins rounded, fin ends extend beyond the middle of the ventral fins. The anal fin is shorter than the dorsal fin, and the caudal fin is rounded and does not end in the anus. The anus is located immediately in front of the anal fin. The entire body is clothed with medium-sized round scales and the top of the head is covered with irregular scales. The lateral line is straight, with a small zigzag above the anus and 2 rows of scales shifted downward, located in the middle of the body side, and then extended to the base of the tail. Fishermen in the Pearl River Delta region customarily call it the "Two Lakes Spotted Fish". The fish meat has a strong fishy odor.

2, snakeheads morphological characteristics of the general body length of 20 centimeters, weight 500-1000 grams. The body is nearly cylindrical, and the caudal peduncle is thick and short. The head is long, the muzzle is short, slightly flat. The dorsal and anal fin bases are very long, without hard spines. Pectoral fins are rounded, ventral fins are small and anterior. Caudal fin rounded. The body is black and gray, the abdomen is gray and white, with numerous irregular-sized black spots; the black spot on the top of the head is in the shape of "one-eighty-eight". Customarily known as the "two wide spotted fish", the fish meat in soup without fishy flavor.

3, the main difference between snakeheads and snakeheads snakeheads body is longer, snakeheads body is shorter; snakeheads head on top of a seven-star pattern, snakeheads head on top of the pattern is similar to the "one-eighty-eight" three words of the shape. In addition, the head of snakeheads is more pointed, more snake-like.

4, hybrid fish from outside (Shandong, Hunan, etc.) snakehead for the father, Guangdong snakehead for the mother of the cross-breeding of the next generation of hybrids, the hybrid growth rate is fast, 3 months weight up to 1 kg or so, with a strong resistance, tender meat, flavor and other characteristics. In the Pearl River Delta region, snakeheads are commonly known as "Hong Kong species", snakeheads are commonly known as "Hunan fish", the former two kinds of snakeheads cross-breeding of the next generation of fish as "hybrids"