Regalecus glesne, also known as Lerner's Epinephelus, is commonly known as Dragon Palace Messenger, Bai Longwang, Dragon King Fish, Epinephelus gigas, Herring King, Paddle Fish and Earthquake Fish, and belongs to one of lampriformes Epinephelus. People usually think that they are monsters that sweep the bottom of the sea and destroy everything, and they have also been mistaken for legends in Southeast Asia? Dragon? . Zoroach fish are distributed in all oceans of the world, belonging to deep-sea fish, and there are 9 species in 3 families in the world. The dorsal fin is red, very long, as high as two stories, starting from the top of the head like a mane crown. The fish body is silvery gray with blue-black stripes. The head is blue and the fins are red. Yellow croaker is the longest bony fish in the world, which is rarely seen on the water. Some people occasionally think it is wrong? sea
1 biological introduction
Giant Zoroach (4) Zoroach belongs to lampriformes and Zoroach family, and there are mainly two kinds of Zoroach: Le's Zoroach and Gun's Zoroach. It is the longest bony fish in the ocean. The maximum length is 50 feet (15.2m) and the weight is100lb (90.72kg).
The octopus is easy to identify, its body is as shiny as that of the much smaller octopus, and it has a bright red dorsal fin above the whole body. Unlike hairtail, their mouths are small and toothless. They use rows of gills to help suck crustaceans into their mouths.
They live in the deep sea as deep as 3000 feet, and all the octopus that comes to the surface is sick or dying. However, some scientists believe that their vitality is very strong, even if only the first half of their bodies are left, they can still live. Many people think that the legendary sea snake of ancient navigators is the image from the yellow croaker.
2 historical records
Aristotle wrote in the history of animals written in the fourth century BC:? In Libya, sea snakes are huge. Sailors sailing along the coast said that they had been attacked by sea snakes during the voyage. ? In fact, this legendary monster is not a sea snake, but a kind of deep-sea giant hairtail, which scientists call yellow hairtail? The longest bony fish in the ocean. Because this giant hairtail with a length of 18 meters has been living in deep-sea waters, it is difficult to capture and observe, and people know little about it. For thousands of years, it has been full of mystery.
3 appearance characteristics
The body of the yellow croaker is flat and elongated in a strip shape. Small head, like a horse's head. The body is bare and scaleless, and there are 5 to 6 rows of tumor-like protrusions on the side of the body. Dorsal fin, red, without fin spines. The dorsal fin base is long, and the front 1 to 5 dorsal fins are often filiform. The ventral fins become a pair of filiform long fins, and the ends are expanded into willow leaves. No anal fin. The caudal fin is not connected to the dorsal fin. The maximum body length can reach15m, but it is generally about 3m. Known to weigh up to 272 kilograms.
4 life habits
The yellow croaker is distributed in the deep sea, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, in the subtropical deep sea from 72 degrees north latitude to 52 degrees south latitude, and its main activity is in the deep warm sea.
They live in the deep sea as deep as 800 meters, and all the octopus known to come to the surface are sick or dying. However, some scientists believe that their vitality is very strong, even if only the first half of their bodies are left, they can still live. Many people think that the legendary sea snake of ancient navigators is the image from the yellow croaker.
Their living habits are unknown. They only live in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. They are the longest bony fish in the world. Belonging to carnivorous fish, they are fierce and prey on all marine animals that can be found, and they also kill each other. Its food includes all kinds of small and medium-sized fish, squid, krill, crabs and so on. Although its huge body and ugly face are ferocious and horrible, the octopus swims very slowly, and it doesn't have the teeth with strong lethality like other octopus. It just floats on the bottom of the sea head-up, and when its prey swims over its mouth, it is inhaled in one breath, and its hard upper and lower jaws are enough to crush crustaceans. The mouth of the octopus is different from that of the octopus. It is very small but has two sharp big teeth. When it sees the big fish within its attack range, it shrinks its body, and the fish swims on it, and it pops out like a spring to bite the fish.
Scientists believe that all such vicious actions of the octopus stem from the scarcity of other fish and food in the deep sea where they live, and they have evolved for a long time in order to survive. This discovery once again confirms nature? Law of the jungle, survival of the fittest? This eternal law.
5 Habitat and reproduction
The reproduction of the yellow croaker is very slow, and the number of the yellow croaker only doubles in about 14 years. The middle of 1 1 month is the season for mating and reproduction of the yellow croaker. At this time of the year, countless octopus will gather from all directions near Savai Island in the South Pacific for collective mating. Scientists still haven't figured out how to locate the octopus, so that it can come back here accurately every year. They are grouped into countless small groups, or dozens or more than a hundred, and their flat and slender bodies are twisted and twisted together, wriggling and tumbling on the seabed covered with coral reefs. However, no matter whether it is a bigger group or a smaller group, there is only one female yellow croaker. And entangled around it are its many pursuers.
After observation, scientists found that the females would lay about * * * about100000 eggs irregularly for two weeks in the breeding period. And every time it lays eggs, several male octopus around it scramble to excrete their sperm. I'm afraid no one can know which egg was fertilized by the sperm of which male yellow croaker.
After mating, the males of the yellow croaker leave here quickly in order not to cause unnecessary killing each other. But in fact, scientists have not found any cannibalism in the waters where the yellow croaker breeds. After inference, scientists think that a special enzyme may be secreted in the body during the breeding season to suppress this urge to kill each other.
The mating males have left, but more males are coming. They will continue to entangle with the female octopus, waiting for its next spawning. This process will last about 2 weeks, and then they will disappear without a trace, leaving only a coral reef dyed white by fish eggs.
6 survival rule
Only live in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, they are the longest bony fish in the world. Zoroach is a carnivorous fish. They are fierce and prey on all marine animals that can be found, and they also kill each other. Scientists believe that all such vicious actions of the octopus stem from the scarcity of other fish and food in the deep sea where they live, and they have evolved for a long time in order to survive. This discovery once again confirms nature? Law of the jungle, survival of the fittest? This eternal law.
7 capture records
The early capture records of this fish are few, so the research data about this fish are also relatively poor. Since ancient times, European fishermen have called it? Sea Lord? In Japanese legend, it is called the Dragon Palace Messenger. With the increase of modern capture records, various studies on the yellow croaker have also been known.
Aristotelian octopus wrote in the history of animals written in the fourth century BC:? In Libya, sea snakes are huge. Sailors sailing along the coast said that they had been attacked by sea snakes during the voyage. ? In fact, this legendary monster is not a sea snake, but a kind of deep-sea giant hairtail, which scientists call yellow hairtail? The longest bony fish in the ocean. Because this giant hairtail with a length of 18 meters has been living in deep-sea waters, it is difficult to capture and observe, and people know little about it. For thousands of years, it has been full of mystery.
18481October 1 1 day, British warships? The DeDallas? After returning to Plymouth Port from east indies, the ship submitted a report. According to the report, the ship was about 300 miles from Africa in the South Atlantic at 5 pm on August 6. Satorie, an alternate officer, saw a very strange object, swimming quickly towards the warship from the rear. ? Satorie immediately reported to the superior. When the captain, two officers and other personnel heard the news, they saw a sea snake swimming in front of the ship. Witnesses estimated that the exposed part of the sea snake was 60 feet long, with a head and neck diameter of about 15 or 6 inches. It crossed at a speed of more than 10 miles per hour? The DeDallas? Swim southwest. Captain McQueen said, when it passed by? Very close to the side below the stern. ?
On September 28th, 2000, it was put into a fixed net in Chongde, Hualien, and caught an octopus with a body length of 5.7m and a weight of 35kg.
(3)200 1 year, for the first time, an octopus was caught by mistake near Hong Kong waters and east of Zhanjiang.
In September 2006, a dying octopus appeared in the sea off Australia. This octopus is more than 8 meters long, with a flat side, a strip-shaped extension and a horsehead-like head. After the fishermen nearby found it, they dragged it to the shore with hooks, and soon the octopus died.
20 10 in may, another 3-meter-long dead individual was found offshore Sweden.
201May 3, 20031On the coast of Taimali, Taitung, an octopus appeared and was picked up by the public. Originally, people wanted to go fishing at the seaside, only to find that a 4. 1 meter-long octopus was washed up on the coast. At first, they wanted to push it back into the sea, but they were hit by the waves and finally had to take it home.
On 20th13rd110th13rd, Jasmine Santana, the instructor of ocean centre in Catalina Island, Southern California, found a 18-foot-long (4.3m) dead octopus while diving in Toyon Bay outside Santa Catalina Island. The octopus died of natural causes, and fiber samples and videos have been sent to biologists in Santa Barbara for research. The corpse is now placed in ocean centre, Catalina Island, for students to visit. After that, the corpse will be buried in the sand. After the corpse decays, the bones will be exhibited for a long time.
20 131October 18, on the beach of Toyon Bay, Catalina Island, California, the staff of Catalina Oceanographic Research Institute once again found a 5.5-meter-long dead octopus. He suspected that these two amazing length of yellow croaker may have been washed to the beach by a strong current and died because of constant beating.
Atlas of the Yellow Hairtail (3)20 13 years 1 On October 28th, Guo Qiulin, a fisherman from Taitung, went fishing in the beach near the Jingyang Security Station of Shore Patrol 8 1 Brigade, but he caught 1 with a tail length of 5 meters and a weight of hundreds of catties (1catties = According to the fish database of Taiwan Province, the scientific name of the earthquake fish is Epinephelus lecanii, which lives 20 to 1000 meters below sea level. Because it often appears before and after earthquakes, it is also called earthquake fish.
Mexican Living in Bai Longwang 20 14 On March 7th, a 4.38-meter-long deep sea was discovered by residents on the Shirakawa coast of Senzaki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan? Yellow croaker? . This is the seventh discovery of Changmen since 1999, and this one is large in size.
The story of Bai Longwang, a 4.5-meter-long giant sea snake, has tortured countless brave explorers and sailors for hundreds of years. On April 8, 20 14, a rare living Bai Longwang, also known as the yellow croaker, was found in the shallow sea of Mexico, with a body length of 4.5 meters.
8 stories and legends
The story of the giant sea snake has tortured countless brave explorers and sailors for hundreds of years. Some people occasionally see it. What do you think? Sea snake? . People usually think that they are monsters that sweep the bottom of the sea and destroy everything, and they have also been mistaken for legends in Southeast Asia? Dragon? .