As the title states, yellow croaker, white croaker, and totoaba? ? may all be pretending to be yellow croaker? ?
Totoaba family? Sciaenidae? Totoaba genus? Nibea ?Fish?
The picture below shows ?Nibea albiflora, commonly known as Chunzi, false yellow croaker, and yellow croaker
The snout is slightly protruding, the mouth cleft is large, the end position is tilted, The upper jaw is longer than the lower jaw. When the mouth is closed, the outer teeth of the upper jaw become canine-like. The second hard spine of the anal fin is thick, and its length is about 2.1 times the diameter of the eye. The upper part of the body is purple-brown, and the lower part is silvery white with orange yellow. The scales on the sides of the body have brown spots, forming stripes that slope forward and downward. The upper part of the hard spine of the dorsal fin is dark brown, the edge of the soft ray is black, and there is a small black spot at the base of each fin ray. The body length can reach 30 cm.
Educable fish has fine flesh and can be fried or steamed. Distributed in the northwest Pacific waters, including China, Japan, South Korea, etc.