Recently, many friends have reported that when they recognize the fish, the appearance and common name of the fish can still match, but their Chinese scientific name is relatively unfamiliar. And some strange words in the name of the fish make people feel that it is more difficult to mouth than the fish's spine. The "Shanghai Common Fish Picture Book", jointly compiled by researchers and painting enthusiasts of the Municipal Academy of Environmental Sciences, not only describes the morphological characteristics and habitat habits of fish, but also introduces the common names and names of various common fish. It is better to teach people to fish than to teach people carp and bream to bream... Today Xiaobian will talk to you about the awkward names of the fish around you.
When we go to the park pool to play or take a walk by the river, we can often see small fish that are flexible in the water, these fish are the largest but slaps, long or arched backs, living in the water " do not move, they are far away, they come and go, as if they are happy with tourists." In addition to the common small crucian carp, the most common of these fish should be "white stripes" and "square skins", but these most common small fish have the most difficult names to recognize - mullet and trout.
The sound of 䱗鲦 is the same as that of "dining strips", that is, the minnows who "travel calmly" in the "Zhuangzi Autumn Water" chapter. The upper back of the minnow is green and the lower abdomen is silvery white, shaped like a willow leaf, and swims with a silver luster. It is fast-moving, sexually active, jumpy, likes to flock, and forages on the surface of the water along the coast. The "white strip nest" phenomenon that anglers are most afraid of encountering is caused by the habit of swimming in groups in the upper layers.
The sound of trout is the same as "parapix", to be precise, it is not a certain kind of fish, but a common name for fish belonging to the subfamily yù of the cyprinid family Cyprinid, and the most common in Shanghai is the high-body trout and the Chinese trout. The fish are flattened, wide and thin, and look a bit like a "mini Wuchang fish". The most notable features of the trout are two: one is that the eggs are laid in the river mussel during the breeding period, the second is that the male fish will show a brilliant courtship color during the estrus period, and the female will drag out the long fallopian tubes in the lower abdomen.
Among the common fish, there are also some fish that, like the above two, are common Buddha-figures and have difficult scientific names to pronounce. For example, the ingredient of the fish head tofu soup we often eat, "fat head fish", the scientific name is bighead carp (yōng) fish; the "black fish" and "mullet" commonly used in the fish balls of the fish fillet are scientifically named squid (lǐ); the steamed "white water fish" of Suhu famous dish, the main ingredient is named bó. You can read our picture books to learn about them so you can show your hand when you have dinner at home.
Some of the following fish, whose scientific names are as difficult to read as ever, have a relatively small chance of seeing them alive:
Weí, commonly known as "River Tuan", has a body shape similar to that of catfish, with a gray and transparent body color, and a shallow upper and lower depth. Its snout is pointed and prominent, with a lower mouth, which facilitates the predation of aquatic insects, mollusks and fish, and prefers to lie out day and night in the waters of river bends with slower currents, deep water depths and many rocks. Long-snout is also a famous river fresh, folk have "do not eat river balls, do not know the taste of fish" said.
The "mullet" of the mullet (zī) fish is synonymous with the word "缁", indicating black, because of its body color blue and gray, in Taiwan, China also has the alias of "mullet" and "aconitum". Because it can adapt to freshwater, brackish water and brackish water habitats near the coast, it has become one of the most important economic fishes cultivated in brackish water along the southern coast of China.
The suō has a long cylindrical body, a straight dorsal margin, a short and wide head, a flat back, a shape similar to a mullet and a whiter body, preferring to move in clusters and feed on organic matter in the sediment underwater. Catfish is a wide temperature and salty fish, which prefers to inhabit estuaries and inner bays, and also enters freshwater water bodies, and is an economic fish that can be seen all year round in the mouth of the Yangtze River, and is on a par with mullet and flower perch.
The eel (lè) fish is also known as "Cao White Fish" and "White Scale Fish" because of its silvery white body color. It lives in the warm upper layers of offshore waters and feeds on cephalopods, crustaceans and small fish. There are many bones in the body, so some areas also call it "rib fish". The Zhoushan area often uses its salting to make "three-hugging crucian carp".
Here we have sorted out all the pronunciation of new words related to this picture book and fish, which is convenient for everyone to inquire:
Have you learned? Welcome to take this word checklist and our picture book to the wilderness, aquariums, vegetable farms and dinner tables to match the actual objects and names of the fish and add an intuitive impression!
Shanghai Common Fish Picture Book
Picture Book of Fish in Shanghai
Guidance: Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, China Environmental Protection Foundation
Editor: Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences
Approval: Shi Min, Yang Jiansheng, Jiang Changmin
Planner: Sha Jianbo Wei Zhengming
Text: Wu Jian, Wang Min
Illustration: Zhang Chi Chen Jie Chen Hongrui Zhang Wanxin Qian Chenyu Zhou Yan Wang Xiao'ao
(The copyright belongs to the main creative team of "Shanghai Common Fish Picture Book", if other media need to reprint, please contact the Municipal Academy of Environmental Sciences, and the source of the information must be noted in a conspicuous position when reprinting)