Catfish or catfish

Catfish, the same as catfish. There are many species, the common ones include catfish (earth catfish), large mouth catfish, bearded catfish (tang fish), leatherbeard catfish (Egyptian bearded catfish) and Hakka commonly known as slider catfish.

Catfish, Kingdom Animalia - Phylum Chordata - Subphylum Chordata - Class Actinosaurs - Order Siluriformes - Catfish Family - Genus Catfish - Catfish Species. There are 4 beards on the mouth, long at the top and short at the bottom. They are carnivorous and mostly wild. They do not have high requirements for water quality and can be cultivated artificially. The growth rate is relatively fast, and some varieties can grow to very large sizes.

水溺[shuǐ chán], scientific name Harpodon nehereus, is a small and medium-sized marine fish in the family Harpodonidae. There is only one main bone, and the meat is soft and as soft as water. The production is especially large in the coastal areas of Wenzhou, Taizhou, Zhoushan in Zhejiang and the coastal areas of Fujian. The scientific name is dragonhead fish. It belongs to the phylum Chordata, the class Osteichthyes, the order Lanternfish, the family Ophiidae, and the genus Asterichthys.

The English name is Bombay duck

This fish has only one main bone, which is soft. The other bones are as soft as whiskers, not to mention the water, so Taizhou, southern Zhejiang People in Wenzhou, Wenzhou and Lishui call it "Shui Gurgling", which means it is as soft as water. Ningbo, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Shanghai, southern Jiangsu and other places in northern Zhejiang are called dragon-headed fish because the fish head looks like a dragon head, and the scientific name is also the same.

Extended information

There are about 23,000 species of fish distributed around the world, and there are more than 2,400 species in the catfish family alone. This means that there is one species of fish in the world. More than half of them are catfish. The catfish family is mainly distributed in tropical areas centered around the equator. In fact, they can be found on all continents except the Arctic and Antarctic.

South America is home to the Amazon River, the largest river in the world, and has the most diverse species of catfish inhabiting it. The red-tailed duckbill that everyone is familiar with in the aquarium world, the Amazon duckbill, a large species of the catfish family known as the "Amazon piranha", the parasitic catfish that is more dangerous than the piranha, the popular helicopter alien, and the elf Alien and diverse species of ratfish...the number of catfish that inhabit the South American continent is simply too numerous to count!

Africa: Among the catfish family distributed in Africa, the most well-known are: Synodontis multipunctatus, Malapterurus electricus, etc. The most popular among them is the hanging rat group headed by Synodontisnigriventris.

Because of the influence of the hanging rats, it is easy for people to mistakenly think that the entire group swims upside down. In fact, only a small number of hanging rats swim in this way, and most of them swim upside down. The hanging rat's lifestyle is no different from that of the common catfish. This habit of swimming upside down should actually be called "ventral action". Their daily routine is to turn their entire body over and swim with their abdomen close to the surface of the object. Most catfish have the habit of moving their abdomen close to objects, but hanging rats regard the water surface as the surface of an object, and they will swim with their abdomen close to the water surface.

Morphological characteristics? Small and medium-sized marine fish. The body is long and flat on the sides, generally 15 to 26 centimeters in length, weighing 75 to 150 grams, with small eyes, forward position, and a large mouth cleft, with the upper edge of the mouth cleft formed by the premaxilla. The teeth in both jaws are densely grown and pointed, can lie down, and the body is soft. Most of the teeth are smooth and scaleless, except for a row of larger scales on the lateral line that reaches the tail fork. The head and back are light brown, the abdomen is milky white, and the lateral line is well developed and obvious, extending from the skull to the center of the fork of the fin. There is one dorsal fin, with only fin rays and no spines. There is a small adipose fin behind the dorsal fin; the pectoral fin and pottery fin are well developed. Approximately equal in length; caudal fin tridentate, with shorter middle lobe. This fish has only one main bone, and the main bone is soft. The fish bones are as soft as whiskers, so people in Taizhou, Wenzhou and Lishui in southern Zhejiang call it "Shui gurgling", which means it is as soft as water. Ningbo, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Shanghai in northern Zhejiang are called dragon-headed fish because the fish head looks like a dragon head, and the scientific name is also the same. In the Xiangshan area of ??Ningbo, it is known as the "Xiangshan Little White Dragon". This name is based on local stories.

People in Chaoshan call it "Teyu", while people in Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province call squid "Runny Nose Fish", which means that the fish looks like mucus flowing out of the nose. The meat is soft and contains high water content, making it difficult to store or transport. It tastes delicious when eaten fresh, and can also be processed into dried products.

Growing environment

Habitat environment: Lives in the middle and lower layers of warm oceans. Not very athletic. Often inhabits shallow sea mud bottom environments.

Food: Omnivorous, feeding on small fish, shrimps, and benthic animals.