China's Chinese character culture is broad and profound, many animals follow certain rules when determining the name of the Chinese, most animals even if you have not seen its name, just look at the side of the head can also guess its type.
To give a few examples: for example, manta rays, even if you don't know the word manta rays, you can guess that this is a fish by side, and if you combine the full name, you can even infer that it is a fish similar to a bat, and this is the case;
Another example is the dark brown eagle, the word quail may not be recognized by many people, but it can also be guessed that this is a bird, or a relatively crazy bird (bird of prey).
There are also quails, plovers, plovers, grebes, grebes, plovers... Even if these words are very strange, they are left next to the bird characters that can be understood.
Collared ibises glaucidium brodiei
There are also such cases in insects, such as cranium, pronounced "onion", which is an insect very similar to dragonflies, commonly known as bean lady;
There is also Ye Jie, a highly mimetic leaf of the stick insect (see picture below), pronounced the same as "Ye Xiu", many fans of "Full-time Master" found it funny after learning the name of this stick insect (the same pronunciation as the protagonist's name).
This phenomenon is actually very common, after all, to give the species a Chinese name should also consider the general public, even if there are a lot of strange words can generally make people understand the routine, except for some words that are not very clear on the side, such as Chinese horseshoe, mountain fish, armadillos and so on.
In addition to these, there are also animal names that are very confusing, or they are completely impossible to guess their species by looking at the names alone, and I have selected six of them for you to introduce.
Giant leaf phyllium giganteum
Barnacles look like a teapot or kettle by name, but in fact, they are arthropods, and friends living inland may not have seen them, but people who live by the sea must have seen them.
Unlike most arthropods, barnacles cannot move around at will, and they don't look like animals at all, but more like small rocks attached to the underside of the hull, reefs, and shells.
Barnacles are jaw-footed, sessile animals that feed on organic matter and microorganisms in water through tentacles, often parasitizing the surfaces of a variety of underwater objects, including various marine organisms, and can even become armor and weapons for marine animals (such as humpback whales).
Barnacles balanus sp.
The pronunciation of the word beetle is the same as "du", which is a collective name for insects of the order Coleoptera and the family Dermatophyllaceae.
We can often see this elytra insect in our daily life, which is characterized by various colored markings on the elytra wings, small size, and rough hair. The larvae of the beetle are also common, looking like caterpillars but not exactly, with longer, straighter hairs on the back of the body.
The diet of the beetle is very extensive, depending on the species, the food can cover most of the organic matter, and even the hair, dandruff, and wall skin shed by humans are their food. Some of the beetles are also decomposers of corpses, which helps in the investigation of forensic criminal cases.
Ham leather beetle dermestes lardarius
The name Rat Woman has a strong Chinese medicine style, it is not a rat, nor a woman, but an arthropod of the soft-on-one, isopoda, and bulbous lice (rat gynecology).
This bug can be seen in most parts of our country, and it has many names in the folk: tide worm, watermelon worm, earth bug, tumbler, pill and so on.
Many boys like to play with this bug when they are young, such as poking them with their fingers after finding them, it will shrink into a very regular ball, and then pop it out of the way with their fingers, and play with glass marbles.
Rat woman armadillidium vulgare
The university town I attended was almost halfway up the hill, behind the playground. Every time it rains, many bugs will emerge from the back mountain, including large earthworms as long as half-amputated arms, various snails and snails, and Malu.
Malu is a general term for the arthropod phylum, polypod subphylum (formerly polypods, which was later upgraded), and pluripopods, also known as millipedes and millipedes, similar to centipedes and earthworms, but with great differences in morphology.
Malu mainly eats saprophyll, fungi, sap, although there are many feet, but the movement is slower than that of centipedes and centipedes, and when stimulated, it will secrete unpleasant body fluids, but this body fluid can repel mosquitoes.
Brick red thick armor Malugoniulus corallinus
The first is all arthropods, and the next is talking about mammals. Animals like mountain fish and armadillos are familiar to everyone, so let's not say anything, let's say something even less known.
Nanyi, the pronunciation of 猊字 is the same as "mud", which everyone should be able to read. It is a marsupial animal that lives in South America, but is not a species of the American marsupial superorder (possum), but belongs to the same Australian marsupial superorder as kangaroos and koalas. It is also the only Australian marsupial superorder that does not live in Australia.
In terms of appearance, Nanyi looks very similar to a mouse, with a body length of 8 to 13 centimeters, a childcare bag, and feeds on fruits and small invertebrates.
Nanyi droniciops gliroides
Although Xiyi and Nanyi are not related, their Chinese names are similar, and I don't know if they are Chinese names set by the same scholar.
The western hedgehog, pronounced "western turbulence "xi turbulence (turbulent water flowing)", is a species of the order Even-hoofed, pig-shaped suborder, and the family Xihu.
Although it looks like a pig, it is not a pig family, it is smaller than a pig, and the proportion of head and body is different. It is a vegetarian-based omnivore whose stomach structure is more complex than that of pig species and is better suited for digesting rough foods.
Unlike wild boars, the west hedgehogs are very aggressive, but they are also thick-skinned animals, and in the face of danger, they will huddle together to form a copper wall to protect themselves.
Prai-Xiang catagonus wagneri
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