Platypus, do you know or understand it?
When I met the duckbill fish by chance, I was surprised by its very peculiar fish mouth, and later learned and understood further, I learned that this fish is not only very old and long-standing, but also has high ornamental value and rare and delicious taste.
It is reported that the platypus is a large freshwater economic fish, native to the Mississippi River Basin in the United States, the scientific name of the American spoon sturgeon.
The platypus has lived on earth for a very long time, and it is said that it existed during the time of the dinosaurs, that is, it lived on the earth 300 million years ago, and thus it remained a rare sturgeon fish.
1. How to know platypus
In the past, I had never seen or heard of platypus, which was a lonely thing.
Until last week, I saw a very strange fish in a roadside stall outside a farmer's market, with a long flat mouth and a white smooth, dark gray body with no scales.
One of its most notable features is that the fish has a long mouth, possibly half the length of a fish's body, and is flattened like a duck's mouth.
Because I had never seen this fish, I felt very strange, so I asked the fish seller, asked what kind of fish it was?
The fish seller said it was a duckbill fish, which was fished from the Tuo River.
I asked the fish seller again, and asked how much money this fish had for a pound?
The fish seller said that it only cost ten dollars a pound.
I was thinking, I haven't seen it in the past, I think it's rare, maybe this fish is dead, otherwise it may not be only ten yuan a pound, maybe it should not be only this price!
Probably because the fish was dead, there were many people who thought the same as me, who walked by this roadside and felt strange, and stopped to look at it for a while, but everyone just looked at it, and there was no one who bought it.
This was the first time I had met this fish, and it was from this time that I learned that there was such a species of platypus in the world.
2. The fish's beak is flattened like a duck's beak
If we have not seen this fish, we can guess from its name alone that one of its distinctive features, the "duck beak."
It is reported that the platypus is a bony fish, its body surface is bare, zerun has no scales, its snout is a spoon-shaped, shaped like a duck's mouth, so called it duck-billed sturgeon, also called it duck-billed fish.
A distinctive feature of the platypus, its snout is particularly long and flattened, like a pulp. The surface of the body is smooth and scaleless, and its back is a black, blue-gray, and on closer inspection, there are some spots, interspersed with dots. There are some dotted ochre on the sides of the body, and the abdomen is white.
It is not difficult to see that the mouth of the platypus is large and small, and the forehead is higher than the mouth. Its gill rakers are dense and slender, the gill cap is large and extends backwards to the ventral fin, its caudal fin is bifurcated, and the caudal stalk is covered with terrier-like carapace scales.
It is said that the duckbill is very adaptable, grows very quickly, and has a relatively docile temperament. It has a short food chain and is a fish that feeds mainly on zooplankton.
In fact, I think this duckbill fish, if you raise it to see, as an ornament, than to raise it to eat, better.
We look at its appearance, the fish beak is flat like a duck's mouth, but it is several times longer than the duck's mouth, more than fifty centimeters long body, long and flat mouth has accounted for more than half, I think it is very good-looking.
So its characteristic duck beak, very ornamental, worthy of breeding as an ornamental fish, should have its good market development prospects, if you like to breed ornamental fish at home, may wish to raise it a few duckbill fish for ornamentation.
3. Eat fish without spitting out bones
Because of its unique and delicious taste, the number of precious and rare fish makes many diners want to taste it quickly.
According to some introductions, the taste of duckbill fish, the meat is very tender, delicious, and less thorny meat, almost a keel directly connected to the duck's mouth. And the bones of the platypus are transparent and very brittle, and can be crushed and eaten.
Whether boiled or braised or steamed, the precious quality of duckmouth fish, coupled with the fusion of chef's exquisite cooking skills, not only the fish meat is also tender, the fish bone is equally soft and crisp, but also sweet and juicy, you can truly experience a delicious experience of eating fish without spitting out bones.
It's a pity, because to this day, I haven't eaten it, I don't know what kind of taste the platypus tastes like, how tender it is, how delicious it is, etc., and I don't know that the restaurants in that place have specially eaten this fish.
If you know that there is, you may take a special time to taste it, eat it once, really taste it, and see if people say "eat fish without spitting out bones", whether it is real and what kind of taste it is.