The White Gourami, scientifically known as the White Gourami, is a species of fish in the genus White Gourami of the family Staphylinidae.

The white goo fish has an extended body, laterally compressed, with slightly curved dorsal and ventral margins. The head is bluntly pointed, with a large, terminal, tilted, non-protruding muzzle, the maxilla equal to the mandible, and the posterior margin of the maxilla reaches behind the pupil; the outermost row of teeth of the maxilla is enlarged, the inner row of teeth is fine and downy, and the anterior central part is edentulous;

The nostrils are two, and the ovoid postnasal nostrils are about twice as big as the rounded prenasal nostrils. Inferior margin of orbits reaching the level of the apex of the anterior maxilla. Posterior margin of anterior gill cover with serrated margin, gill cover with 2 compressed spines; with an anthropomorphic gill; gill rakers elongate, longest 1.5 times as long as gill filaments.

Abdominal membranes black, stomach in the form of a divaricate, intestines in the form of a 2-times-recurved type, pyloric droop 11-12, swim bladder in the form of a white goo, 24-27 pairs of appendages, only ventral branches, the second pair later winged and spreading. The upper part of the body is purple-brown, the lower part silver-white;

Dorsal fin brown, with a silver-white band in the middle of the soft strip; caudal fin black; anal fin colorless; ventral and pectoral fins colorless. Mouth cavity white. Gill cavities black. Gill covers greenish-purple.

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Growth and reproduction

The white goby migrates inshore in reproductive aggregations. In China, there are three known groups:

One, the southern group of the Shandong Peninsula, April-May swim north to the Laizhou Bay, the mouth of the Yalu River and Haizhou Bay and other places to spawn, September-October southward, November-December to return to the wintering grounds.

The Jeju Island group spawns between the mouth of the Yangtze River and Zhoushan in July.

Three, wintering off Wenzhou, traveling north to Zhoushan in April to spawn between Zhoushan and the mouth of the Yangtze River, and returning south to winter in October. Most of the second age that reached sexual maturity. Eggs floating, transparent, egg diameter 0.85-0.92 mm. The total length of the first hatchlings is 2.38 millimeters.