The brontosaurus wild has a darker body color and a slightly longer and thinner body; the artificial has a lighter body color and a slightly shorter and fatter body.

The difference is that the wild one has a strong character and the artificial one has a gentle character.

The brontosaurus is a fish belonging to the phylum Chordata, class Spoke-fin subclass, order Perciformes, suborder Channa, family Channa. This taxon is a common species distributed in China and is a very common food fish.

As an ornamental fish, the more familiar ones range from the huge pencil fish to the tiny colorful brontosaurus.