Hello! Whether in the summer or in other seasons, many people like to go to the hot pot store to eat some fish hot pot, where we can let us come to the choice of fish, catfish I believe that many people have eaten, the meat of this fish is very tender, the flavor is also very fresh, but in appearance is very similar to catfish, it is easy to confuse everyone, so what is the difference between catfish and catfish? Let's take a look at it.

A, morphological characteristics

1, catfish: catfish body elongated, head flat, tail lateral compression, mouth inferior, body surface smooth and scale-free, short dorsal fins, short adipose fins, ventral fins are small, the caudal fin is y forked, the back of the color dark gray, abdominal color is light, the head, the side of the body has an irregular purplish-gray patches, the fins grayish-yellow.

2. Catfish: catfish has an elongated body, a flat head, a laterally flattened tail, a lower mouth, a small cleft, a protruding mandible, a fine interdental tooth, a small eye, two pairs of four adult whiskers, much mucus, a scale-free body, a very small dorsal fin, no hard spines, no blubber fins, and a body color that is usually blackish-brown or grayish-black.

Second, habitat

1, catfish: catfish is a benthic fish, in general, are in the bottom of the water body activities, like to inhabit in the slow current, deep water and water underwater rocks, branches and other hidden things in the river, lake and reservoir in the body of water, winter cluster in the deep water in the main stream gravel crevice overwintering.

2, catfish: catfish is a benthic fish, inhabiting rivers, lakes, reservoirs, pits, ponds, stone gaps, deep pits, the bottom of the roots of the earth or stone holes and slow-flowing water, like to ambush in the shaded bottom or patches of water floats, aquatic peanuts, water hyacinth, below.

Three, feeding habits

1, catfish: catfish is omnivorous fish, fierce and voracious, mainly aquatic insects, crustaceans, benthic mollusks, small fish, animal carcasses, etc. for food, and occasionally also prey on frogs and in the water plants perched on the drop of dragonflies, grasshoppers, butterflies and other terrestrial insects.

2, catfish: catfish is a carnivorous fish, prey for small fish such as meal strip, crucian carp, goby, whelkfish, carp, loach, etc., but also food crustaceans, aquatic insects, etc., ingestion to swallow the main role of the teeth is mainly to prevent the food from escaping.

Catfish:

Catfish is also known as bearded fish, pond fish. Its distinctive features are the circumference of the body without scales, body surface mucus, head flat mouth wide, upper and lower jaw each has four stripes beard, widely distributed, mainly produced in the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Basin, mid-spring to mid-summer (April to July) for the best eating season. Catfish is a carnivorous fish, its meat is tender and less spiny, delicious and rich, rich in protein and fat, rich in nutrition.

Channel catfish:

Channel catfish produced in Hubei reservoir area of freshwater fish, also known as the river group, fat fish. Catfish is rich in trace elements, vitamins, and anti-cancer and antioxidant substances, so it has anti-aging, antioxidant as well as the role of beauty. Catfish is also very rich in folic acid and vitamins and calcium, iron, phosphorus and other minerals, these nutrients have a very good effect on the body and role. And the fish also contains a lot of rich magnesium, magnesium on the cardiovascular has a very good protective effect, can be conducive to the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Qingjiang fish is very rich in protein, easy to be digested and absorbed by the body.