1. Wild fish are common in Guangxi
Guangxi has a complex topography and numerous rivers, which are suitable for the habitat and reproduction of different fish. At present, it is known that there are 290 species and subspecies of 143 genera in 15 orders, 37 families, and 143 genera, many of which have important economic value. The salient characteristics of wild freshwater fish in Guangxi are high species diversity, special genera and species, narrow distribution areas of many species, obvious oriental boundary characteristics of fauna composition, and different water system fish composition.
Guangxi is rich in species and fish resources, but most of the streams and rivers have been vandalized or invaded by alien species, resulting in fewer and fewer native fish species. The following author introduces some common freshwater fish in Guangxi, as well as characteristic fish species, precious fish, cave fish, etc.
1. Loach
It is a fish of the genus Loach in the family Loachidae, commonly known as knife cut, knife loach, and chasing fish. It is a freshwater fish, distributed in the southern part of China and the Huai River, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal South Four Lakes and other river basins, the body is thin and long, there are barbs on the back, and the mouth is pointed and thin.
Loach
2. Pond horn fish
It is widely distributed throughout the south of our country. Also known as pond horn fish, bearded catfish.
Bearded catfish
3. Stick flower fish
Commonly known as climbing tiger fish, sand hammer, flower stick, flower bone fish. Fish of the subfamily Catalpaeae. Slightly flattened. The head is short, the snout is short, and the front end is rounded and blunt. The eyes are small, lateral and superior, and the interocular spaces are broad and flat. The dorsal fins have no hard spines, and the pectoral fins are rounded and blunt, both are short. Caudal fin fork type. The dorsal back of the head is slightly darker , with an inconspicuous longitudinal stripe on the side of the body , with 9 to 11 black spots on it and 8 to 11 black patches on the back.
Bonefish
4. Hua Mu
It is distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Xijiang and Beijiang regions, in the order Cyprinidae, Cyprinididae, subfamily Wild carp, and genus Crucifers. Commonly known as green dragon stick, peach blossom stick, wild mud carp, green coat, agarwood fish. Shaped like mud carp, thick scales, slightly black in color, with light red dots, under the lips, tender and smooth flesh, raw fish, but also color, fragrance and taste
Hua Mu
5. White turtle
It belongs to the order Cyprinidae, Cyprinidae, Subfamily Catfish, Genus White Turtle. It is commonly known as white beetle, southern snout, clawed streamer, chamomile, red-tailed olive, flat-headed olive, and beachhead carp. It is distributed in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River and Yuanjiang river systems. The body is slender, flattened laterally, the head is short and wide, the snout is conical, the mouth is lower, and it is transversely lobed.
White turtle
6. Light-lipped fish
Cyprinidae, Cyprinidae, Subfamily Catfish, Genus Light-lipped Fish. Commonly known as brook grouper, rosefish. The body is slender, flattened laterally, with a slight bulge on the back of the head and a rounded and shallowly curved abdomen. The head is medium-sized, flattened laterally, with a slightly pointed front end.
Light-lipped fish
7. Striped two-whiskered catfish
Common names are Golden Bar, Melon Kernel, Red-eyed Catfish, Red-eyed Monkey Crucian Carp, Pentagram, Cyprinidae, Cyprinidae, Dipterocarpus. Native to Guangxi and its nearby provinces, it is a small fish with a spindle-shaped body, a body length of 5 to 8 cm, a golden yellow body, many tan patches scattered on the body, and a brick red on the back, abdomen, buttocks, and tail fins.
Two-whiskered catfish
8. Carp
Commonly known as the pendulum, Shaya. Species in Guangxi include round-nosed carp, oblique-jawed carp, silver carp and yellow-tailed carp.
Catfish
9. Blue knifefish (southern meal)
The body is long, flattened, and the back is slightly straight. From the base of the ventral fin to the anus with ventral ridges. Tip of the head. At the end of the mouth, there are inlaid protrusions and depressions at the anterior end of the two jaws. Without. The lateral line bends sharply above the pectoral fin. The dorsal fin spines the posterior margin smooth. Living in the middle and upper layers of water bodies, swimming quickly and enjoying cluster activities. Small fish, generally 8 to 140 cm long. It is distributed in various water systems south of the Yangtze River. It is not the same kind of fish as the white stripe, the white stripe is short and thick, the southern meal is thin and long, the white stripe is thin, and the southern meal is thick.
Blue knife
10. Heterogeneous carp
Cyprinid family, heterogeneous spp. Similar to the longfin horsefish common in the south. The body is flattened on the side, the abdomen is narrow, and the ventral fins and even the ventral edges are obvious. It is distributed in the Pearl River Basin in Daming Mountain, Shanglin County, Guangxi, around Nanning City, southern Guangdong Rivers, Fujian Jiulong River, Zhanghe River system and some rivers on Hainan Island. It is distributed abroad to parts of Vietnam. It lives mainly in mountain streams or small tributaries.
Heterogeneous
11. Big-eyed bream
Commonly known as big-eyed bream, big-eyed bream. It is distributed in Taiwan, Fujian, Guangxi and other places. The body is tall, flattened laterally, the back of the head is raised, the abdomen is significantly convex, the caudal stalk is short and high, and there are abdominal bars from the ventral fin and even between the anus.
Big-eyed bream
12. Silver bass
Commonly known as shell shell, bright cover, oil fish boy, white head mingfish. It is a small fish of the family Cyprinidae and the genus Silverback, with a wide range. It mainly lives in small water bodies such as small tributaries and ponds of rivers, especially likes to stay in the slow flow of rivers with sandy substrates, and prefers to inhabit the middle and lower layers of water bodies.
Silver bass
13. Southern tinkletfish
The cyprinid family, a small fish in the genus Mackerel, lives in streams. Most of the fish of the genus Squid prefer to jump out of the water to hunt, especially the southern pursile fish. With a large mouth of his own, he jumped out of the water to prey on insects, and the accuracy can be described as a hundred steps through Yang
Southern stingray
14. Loach
It is distributed in the waters of Zhejiang Province, the Changjiang River system of Hainan Island, the Mashan River, Qingjiang river and Dongting Lake and Duyang Lake water systems in Guangxi, and often inhabits the rocky water bodies of mountains and streams. It is endemic to China. It can be subdivided into Zhejiang original loach, Yunnan original loach, Xinyi original loach, Pingzhou original loach and so on.
Loach
15. Sashihua darkfish
It is a species of fish in the family Sand Pond Fish, a species of fish in the genus Zohar. It is distributed in Guangxi and Guangdong Hanjiang, Longjin River, Dongjiang River and Moyang River water system, and is endemic to China. Can be used as an ornamental fish breeding, tank bully, suspension skills first-class.
Hua Dark Fish
16. Spotted snakehead
Commonly known as raw fish, Guangxi is called flower fish. Scientific name spotted snakehead. It is mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Hainan. The spotted snakehead is a typical ferocious carnivorous fish that feeds mainly on small fish, shrimp, tadpoles, aquatic insects and other aquatic animals. It is a freshwater fish with high economic value, which is rich in nutrition, high protein content, tender meat, delicious taste, less bone spurs, and has the effects of nourishing, muscle collection, blood invigorating, and removing stasis. At the same time, it is also an important fish for foreign trade exports, and the scale of breeding and economic benefits are high.
Spotted snakehead Guangxi is called the seven-star fish
17. Guangxi loach
It is distributed in the east, north and west rivers of the Pearl River system, Hainan Island and the Yuan River in Yunnan. There are two major types of rivers and caves, most of which are mainly sucking loach and plateau loach, most of the cave loach in Guangxi is plateau loach, and river loach is mainly sucking loach and climbing loach.
Sucker loach Climbing loach
2. Guangxi's precious freshwater fish
1. Sesame sword
Guangxi is also one of the provinces with developed water systems, there are countless lakes and rivers of all sizes, and in this karst water system is a kind of singing fish, the name of this fish is called sesame sword.
Sesame sword, scientific name spotted turtle, is an extremely valuable freshwater fish. The fish has no scales, sharp sword-like fins, and is named after the sesame-like spots on its body. Guangxi specialty, grown in the Hongshui River Basin, of which Tian'e County's "sesame sword" is the most famous. Because of the uniqueness of its life, the quality of the river is high and it is difficult to cultivate artificially, but it is extremely vigorous.
Sesame Sword | Scientific name spotted turtle
2. Ayu
A freshwater fish native to Guangxi, this fish is very rare in the wild, it is difficult for ordinary people to encounter it. The appearance of the ayu is very special, its body is flat and narrow, the mouth is large and the eyes are small, the head is very pointed, and the fins on the back are particularly long, like sharks. Its back color is bluish-black, while the abdomen is generally white, and there is a pair of fish fins under the abdomen, and the tail fin is split, and the overall appearance looks very special.
Ayu is an extremely delicious freshwater fish, its flesh is fresh and tender, and its bones are particularly small. Its nutrition is very rich, fish meat is rich in protein, fat, vitamins, and a variety of trace minerals, plus it grows in clear waters all year round, fish meat almost does not contain any impurities, eat very pure and authentic, so ayu is also known as "freshwater fish king".
Ayu
3. Flower eel
It is a larger eel in the eel, a national second-level protected wild animal, with an elongated rod-shaped body, much like a huge eel, so it is commonly known as the "eel king". It is distributed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and south of the Qiantang River, Lingjiang River, Oujiang River, Minjiang River, JiulongJiang River, Taiwan to Guangdong, Hainan Island and Guangxi. Wild flower eels are caught and released, otherwise they are responsible.
Flower eel
4. Spoon sturgeon
Mainly produced in the Li River, Guangxi, it is a cartilaginous fish, with a bare body surface, no scales, a spoon-shaped snout, shaped like a duck's beak, so it is also known as duck-billed sturgeon. Its snout is particularly long , flattened , slurry - the surface of the body is smooth and scaleless , and the back is dark, blue-grey , often with spots between them.
paddlefish
5. Spotted mandarin
It grows mainly in the lake waters of the Guijiang and Xijiang rivers. Benthic, prefers clear water, especially hiding in rocks, tree roots or lush grass. The head has small dark black round spots, and there are more ring-shaped spots on the side of the body.
Spotted mandarin fish
3. Endemic fish in Guangxi
Spotted striped fish
Produced in the Lingqi River, the Lingqi River is a first-class tributary of the Hongshui River section of the main stream of the West River of the Pearl River system, also known as the Qingshui River. This kind of fish is a special fish product in the Hongshui River Basin of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and its meat is delicious, the market price is high, the sales volume is large, and it is one of the fist products of Guangxi's characteristic fish. The Lingqi River is rich in fish species, including sesame sword, osmanthus fish, wax chase fish, carp, grass carp, pond horn fish, flower fish, yellow eel, blue knife fish, catfish, dozens of species.
Thick-lipped yao mountain loach
The scientific name is thick-lipped original sucker, which is only distributed in the Dayao Mountain area of Guangxi, commonly known as panda shark, golden loach, panda climbing rock loach.
Panda loach
Rock mud carp
It is not much different from ordinary mud carp, but what is more peculiar is its mouth, which is very similar to the mouth of a pig. Commonly known as molu fish, the scientific name is rock mud carp. Rock mud carp mainly lives in the red water river and the left river and right river in the Baise area of hechi, and has extremely high water quality requirements. If the water quality is slightly polluted, it is difficult to survive.
4. Cave fish in Guangxi
Guangxi is the province with the largest distribution of cave fish in China. There are 61 species of cave fish in 4 families and 11 genera in Guangxi. The composition of cave fish in Guangxi is dominated by loach and carps, of which the carp family goldenrod is the most diverse.
Fork-backed gold-lined catfish
Cave goldline catfish
Most of the cave fish in Guangxi are plateau loach, loach, sucker loach and brackfish.
Cave hawks
The following is a complete list of the detailed names of cave fish in Guangxi
Loachidae
Buccal scaled loach
Flat fruit heterophylla loach, new species
Transparent interloid loach
Zheng's striped loach
Posterior fin Yunnan loach
Long-whiskered Yunnan loach
Jingxi Yunnan loach
White lotus Yunnan loach, new species
Hindfin blind paraquatch
Lingyun plateau loach
Nandan Plateau loach
Albacore highland loach
Tenga Plateau Loach
Flower flat plateau loach
Large-headed highland loach
Loach of the Loch Plateau
Loach around the river plateau
Langping plateau loach, a new species
Fengshan plateau loach, a new species
Trekking highland loach, a new species
Loach
Forktail loach
Transparent loach
Loach with small eyes
Loach of the Great Scaly Ridge
Humpback loach, a new species
Weak-bearded loach, a new species
Duanling loach, a new species
East Lanling loach, new species
Eyeless loach
Spotted loach
Lo Cheng Ling Loach
Guan'an ridge loach
Loach
No-eye protobacillus
Anterior ventral loach
Multi-scaled loach
Genus Dipterocarpus
Small-eyed double-whiskered loach
Goldline catfish
Gills with large scales
Guilin golden thread gill
Gill of the Ji's gill
Gills around the river
Yishan golden thread gill
Short-bodied gill
Short-whiskered gill
Long-whiskered gill
East Lan gold line gills
Lingyun golden thread gill
Gills of the Nine Polders
Ma Shan full line catfish
High-shouldered gold-lined catfish
Big-eyed goldenrod
Small-scale gold-lined catfish
Multi-spotted full-line catfish
Curved-backed gold-backed catfish
Tianlin golden thread catfish
Duck-billed gold-threaded catfish
Taming the golden ray
Jingxi golden thread catfish
Lolou golden line catfish
Heteroceros
Long-bearded heterogeneous carp