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Do leaky fish have spines?
Yes.

Wormfish, the scientific name of heavy lip fish, also called it Penny Head, real mouth fish, heavy mouth fish, leaky fish, lip fish bone and so many names. Wormfish has few spines and delicate garlic clove-shaped meat without fishy flavor, which is a treasure in fish dishes.

In the Yangtze River Basin, Minjiang, Jialing River and other waterways, fast-flowing rivers and mountain streams living in a special fish, the local people call it "leaky fish", the scientific name should be called "heavy lip fish", it is conical head of the fish, eyes are very large, the most attractive is the "leaky fish". What attracts people's attention is the "sexy" mouth. The lips are thick, horseshoe-shaped and very well developed, with a folded structure, interrupted by the post-lip groove, and a relatively narrow gap between the jaws with no sharp horny edges. Leaky fish belongs to the demersal fish, preferring to be in the middle and lower layers of the water body, migrating to the deep water of rivers in winter to overwinter. It feeds on benthic animals, mainly aquatic insects and mollusks, and also eats a variety of small fish. It is tender meat, delicious flavor, is a delicacy in the fish dishes. Folklore has "bighead carp head, carp tail, delicious but leaky fish" proverb.