Pelteobagrus fulvidraco and Pelteobagrus fulvidraco are the same kind of fish.
Living environment: Pelteobagrus fulvidraco prefers to live in shallow waters with slow currents and lush water plants.
Morphological features: the fish has a long and stout body, a large and flat head, the back half of the body is laterally flattened, there are tentacles on the side of the mouth, the back of the body is blackish brown, the abdomen is yellow, the dorsal fin and pectoral fin have developed bony hard spines.
Diet: As fry, it feeds on rotifers, branchiopods, and copepod larvae. As an adult, it feeds on small fish and shrimp, snails and mussels, insects and their larvae, plant debris, and fish eggs.
I. Difference between Pelteobagrus fulvidraco and Pelteobagrus fulvidraco
1. Pelteobagrus fulvidraco and Pelteobagrus fulvidraco are the same kind of fish.
2. The aliases of the yellow catfish are yellow kuding, yellow chili ding, yellow bone fish, angstrom fish, yellow saguaro, yellow gourami, and Wang prickly fish.
2, Pelteobagrus fulvidraco living environment
Pelteobagrus fulvidraco is a demersal fish, often in the slow current speed, the water grass in the shallow water area and into the lake river area life, especially like the still water or slow-flowing shallows.
3. Morphological Characteristics of Pelteobagrus fulvidraco
1. Fish Body: Pelteobagrus fulvidraco has a long and stout body, a large and flat head, a later part of the body laterally flattened, and a flat abdomen. The end of the muzzle is bluntly rounded, the mouth is large and inferior, and the teeth are fluffy and arranged in bands. There are tentacles on the side of the mouth, of which the nasal whiskers are situated on the anterior margin of the posterior nostrils and reach to or beyond the posterior margin of the eyes, the jaw whiskers reach to or beyond the base of the pectoral fins, and the medial chin whiskers are shorter than the lateral chin whiskers.
2. Body color: The back of the body is blackish brown, changing to light yellow in the abdomen, and the fins are grayish black with a slight yellowish tinge.
3. Fins: dorsal and pectoral fins with well-developed bony spines, ventral and adipose fins are shorter, and the caudal fin is y forked, with the upper and lower lobes basically equal in length.
Four, Pelteobagrus fulvidraco diet
Pelteobagrus fulvidraco is an omnivorous fish, absorbing nutrients from the yolk sac when it just hatched. After 4 days of hatching, the yolk sac disappears, and then enters the open feeding stage. In the fry stage, it mainly feeds on rotifers, branchiostoma, copepod larvae, and in the adult stage, it mainly feeds on small fishes and shrimps, snails and mussels, insects and their larvae, plant debris, and fish eggs, etc.
The Pelteobagrus fulvidraco is an omnivorous fish.