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Chinese aliases: strip, minnow, sub, white minnow, white fish, blue knife fish, swim diaozi, green scale sub, sharp mouth sub, floating chub, meal strip, meal sub. Taiwan alias: white minnow, meal strip, bitter trough boy, sea chub boy, chili boy.
Common names: white plume (female) / red plume (male), bitter trough boy, sea chub boy, chili boy, white stripe, white (白), green scale boy, sharp mouth, floating chub, meal boy, meal fish.
Primary freshwater fish. Higher water quality requirements, faster reproduction, mouth fish, this fish and horse mouth, warble mouth similar in appearance, higher nutritional value, high protein, high nutrition. In the sunny, warmer weather, the most capture, like fishy pasta. It is a common fish at low altitude and likes to live in groups in the upper layers of streams, lakes and reservoirs. Habitat depth: 0 to 10 meters.
Chinese Name
White Stripe, Warbling Mouth, Horse's Mouth
Latin Name
Hemiculter leucisculus
Alias
Stripe, Minnow, Zipper, White Minnow, White Fish, etc.
Community
Zoological Community
Family
Portal
Chiroptera Phylum
Morphological features
Body prolonged and laterally compressed, dorsal margin relatively straight, ventral margin slightly convex, ventral ribs from below the pectoral fins to the anus. The head is slightly pointed and laterally compressed. Snout short, snout longer than eye diameter. Mouth terminal, obliquely cleft. Eyes large, interoculars wide and slightly convex, their spacing larger than eye diameter. Pharyngeal cephalic teeth 3-rowed, teeth 5.4.2-2.4.4. Body covered with small to medium rounded scales; lateral line complete, sloping sharply downward above pectoral fins, at a significant angle, traveling to lower half of body, then folding upward at caudal peduncle to central part. Dorsal fin hard spines III, branched soft bars 7; anal fin 3 (unbranched soft bars) + 11-12 (branched soft bars). Body greenish gray dorsally, silvery white laterally and ventrally, highly reflective all over, without any other pattern. Caudal fin gray-black. The male's body turns red and blue colored during the breeding season and is very beautiful.