The Chaoshan Bamboo Noodlefish is called the Four-Fingered Horse Mackerel.

There is an old saying in southern Fujian, which you may have heard of, called "one pomfret, two red pomfret, three pomfret, four horse mackerel, five otolitho, six gala," which is a list of the traditional marine fishes that were widely rumored to be the most popular fish in the southern Fujian area at that time. The first "鯃" (also known as "午") refers to the bamboo fish - four-fingered horse mackerel [bà], which can be seen in the bamboo fish at that time how popular.

Four fingers of horse mackerel "mackerel", Shandong people must not be unfamiliar, after all, the most famous local dumplings is mackerel dumplings. Here the Spanish mackerel refers to the horse mackerel (Chinese name: blue point horse mackerel), appearance and four fingers horse mackerel can really look not too similar, but why the name have a "Spanish" word? We've looked at fish illustrations and found that this may have been a forced error.

In the fish atlas, the four-fingered horse mackerel's "mackerel" consists of [鱼+友], which is not found in the dictionary, and is pronounced as [yǒu] in some places, which is why it's also commonly known as the horse mackerel. We guess, maybe because [鱼+友]字在电脑上无法打出(不信你44)字，便以近似的 "鲅 "字替代，久久久久大家也就就习惯了。

Four-fingered horse mackerel Introduction:

Mainly distributed in China and the coast of Japan, is a widely saline offshore warm small and medium-sized demersal fish, inhabits in the offshore, the breeding season into the estuaries of the brackish zone, the juvenile fish will occasionally go up the river to feed on copepods, telopods and shrimp. It is named for its four free filamentous pectoral fins, which resemble fingers. In Jiangsu Province, it is mainly found in the coastal waters of Qidong, with very low survival rates in low salinity and freshwater.

A multi-scaled four-fingered horse mackerel with a body length of 219.6 millimeters was caught in Yangzhong, Jiangsu Province, in October 2018, and has now been included as a precious specimen in the Aquatic Biology Herbarium of the Jiangsu Institute of Freshwater Aquatic Research. This is the farthest freshwater record of this species found so far, the discovery and identification work related academic reports have been published in the international ichthyological journal "Cybium".