Gobies are a type of fish that the original tank friends often hear, they are widely distributed in the north and south of China's great rivers, many categories, different products, some even colorful, deeply loved by everyone.
In the long years, they have been deeply imprinted in the long river of our country's historical civilization and have been integrated into our lives.
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In my impression, the goby can be a solid and fierce Ziling goby, or a Zhou's shrimp tiger with several wide and narrow staggered yellow patterns on the light green coat, or it can be a colorful and recognizable Taiwanese kissing shrimp tiger.
They have their own characteristics and make up my good expectations for gobies, but when I learned more about gobies, I found that the wolf-toothed goby was the most unforgettable.
Photography 丨wolf tooth shrimp tiger
Wolf-toothed gorills are an outlier in the gobies family. Its eyes shrank into two small black dots hidden under the skin, and its vision deteriorated dramatically. Like the Mexican blind fish, because of their living habits, they have less opportunity to use their eyes, and simply abandon the direction of derivation of vision and instead improve their sensitivity, including smell and touch. As you can imagine, a fish that can hardly press its eyes should be a little strange.
Equally peculiar is its mouth. This goby has sharp, thin teeth that are completely exposed and look as if they have not evolved lips.
We've seen too many beautiful, generous, or dignified creatures that may not be able to accept fish with small eyes and bulging teeth. When you really see the wolf's tooth shrimp tiger, most of them will have the illusion of walking out of the screen like an alien.
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The wolf's tooth shrimp tiger head is wide and narrow, the body is banded, its body color is light red or gray-purple, as if it has been peeled by someone, especially in the sun, that pure flesh color translucency state, let people a little hairy.
The form of the wolf-tooth goby is inseparable from its living environment and habits. It mainly lives in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, including a large area of the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
They prefer to live in estuaries, bays, wetlands, sandy shores and other places with silt or gravel. It can be seen that it must have a strong tendency to drill holes, and in areas rich in sand and gravel, it is difficult for sunlight to penetrate and shine, so these eyes naturally degenerate and shrink.
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Most of the fish in the offshore areas have migratory tendencies. Among them, eels are representative fish. Wolf's tooth shrimp tiger also has this habit, its banded body can be very good to reduce the resistance of water flow, save the energy of the migration, so that it will not be exhausted after the migration, and even do not have the strength to avoid predators.
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Sometimes they migrate to an area and gather in large numbers, causing strong concern. Someone has fished for wolf-toothed shrimp tigers in Taihu Lake before, but its large mouth and fangs are too terrible, and its fleshy pink coat is somewhat vicious.
Many anglers have found that there are fish hooked from afar, happily closing the line, and after seeing the appearance of the wolf's tooth and tiger, the whole person is not good. In fact, the taste of this fish is still good, after removing the head, who cares what evil body infiltrates whose taste buds, which shape of the skin and flesh warms whose stomach.
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However, if it is not a special situation, it is not easy to see the wolf's tooth shrimp tiger, when you are occasionally interested in looking for the wolf's tooth shrimp tiger, this guy may be content to hide in the sand and gravel, spend a quiet time comfortably.
And when we come home with great excitement, or when we begin to miss another strange fish, the wolf-toothed goby may suddenly jump out of the crevices, cling to the stone wall, or jump between two stones and forage around.
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