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Blackfish

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Blackfish, the common name of snakehead fish [lǐ], is also known as blackfish, raw fish, wealth fish, snakefish, and firehead fish.

The blackfish is fierce, fertile and has a big appetite, often eating all the other fish in a lake or pond. The blackfish can also glide over land, migrate to other waters in search of food, and can live out of water for up to three days. As early as 2,000 years ago was "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" with stone honey, bee seeds, beeswax (propolis), oysters, turtle shells, mulberry ticks octopus, sea clams, clams, carp, etc., listed as the top quality of insects and fish.

Blackfish is a common food fish in China, with large individuals, fast growth and high economic value. Blackfish has few bones and spines, high meat content, and is rich in nutrients, higher than the protein contained in chicken and beef. Blackfish as a medicinal use with the removal of blood stasis to generate new, tonic tonic effect, after surgery, eating blackfish has a muscle tonic blood, to promote the healing of wounds, has a very rich nutritional value.

Chinese name: blackfish

Latin name: Channa argus

Alternative names: raw fish, thunderfish, blackfish, blackfish, fish, stick, snakehead fish, snakeheads, fireheads, wen fish, talent fish

Boundary: Animalia

Portal: Chordata

Plantage: Chordata

Plantage: Spoke-finned fishes

Organism: Perch

Subclass: Persea

Suborder: Persea

Object: Perseus

Subclass: Persea (Porpoidea) p>

Suborder: Channidae

Family: Channidae

Genus: Channidae

Species: Channa striata

Common name in English: Snakehead, Snakeheaded Fish

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Morphological features

The body is cylindrical at the front, and laterally compressed at the back. The head is long, slightly flattened anteriorly and slightly elevated posteriorly. Snout

Blackfish 2

Short, rounded, blunt, mouth large, telescopic, slit slightly oblique and extending to the lower edge behind the eyes, lower jaw slightly protruding. Teeth minute, banded in upper and lower jaws, firm on both sides of lower jaw. Eyes small, superiorly lateral, residing in the anterior half of the head, rather close to the muzzle. Two pairs of nostrils, the anterior nostrils located at the end of the muzzle are tubular, and the posterior nostrils are located above the front of the eyes, a small round hole. Gill slits are large, the right and left gill membranes are fused and not connected to the cheeks gill rakers are thick and short, sparsely arranged, and there is a supra-gill organ with auxiliary function above the gill cavities on the left and right side, which is capable of breathing air.

Body color is gray-black, the back of the body and the top of the head is darker, the abdomen is pale white, the side of the body each has irregular black patches, the side of the head each has 2 rows of black spots. The odd fins are spotted with black and white, and the even fins are grayish yellow with irregular spots. Body clothed with medium-sized, rounded scales, the top of the head covered with irregular scales. The lateral line is straight, with a small zigzag above the anus and two rows of scales shifted downward, traveling down the middle of the body and extending posteriorly to the tail.