Animals by Scientific Class Names

Palea steindachneri,wattle-necked softshell turtle,Trionyx steindachneri Siebenrock,Mountain Rui, Rui fish, soft-shelled turtle, round fish, turtle, tortoise

Features：Its appearance is very similar to that of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle, commonly known as "turtle". It is round in shape, but slightly larger and thicker.

The mountain softshell turtle is a cold-blooded animal. When the temperature drops to 12℃, it will hibernate under the sand or stones, so people also call it the sand softshell turtle. When the temperature rises to 18-20℃ in the next spring, it will wake up and start looking for food. The optimum...

Pelochelys cantorii，Frog-faced Softshell Turtle、Asian Giant Soft-shelled Turtle、Cantor's Giant Softshell，Blue grouper, silver fish, green grouper, giant turtle, spotted turtle, Cantor's gian

Features：The largest species of turtle, it has a relatively small head and small eyes. It likes to live in groups and has a long lifespan.

Before and after the release of the "List of National Key Protected Wildlife in China" in 1989, according to the "Fauna Sinica", all giant freshwater turtles in China were called "turtles". Therefore, the turtle (then scientific name Pelochelys bibroni), which was liste...

Dermochelys coriacea，Leatherback Turtle，Leatherback turtle, seven-winged turtle, sampan turtle, swallow turtle, leatherback turtle

Features：The largest of the order Testudinata, its body and limbs are covered with irregular polygonal scales. The largest is found in

The leatherback turtle is large and is the largest turtle in the world. It has a large head, short neck and tail, paddle-shaped limbs, no claws, and particularly developed forelimbs.The leatherback turtle is a cold-blooded reptile that swims fast and has strong ability. It is omnivorous and lays egg...

Lepidochelys olivacea,Olive Ridley, Pacific Ridley,Ridley du Pacifique, Tortue Bâtarde, Tortue Olivâtre, Tartaruga-comum, Tartaruga-oliva, Tartaruga-pequena,Tortue de Ridley,Tortuga Carpintera, Tortug

Features：The limbs are flat like paddles. The head, limbs and back of the body are dark olive green, and the plastron is light orange-yellow.

The Olive Ridley is marine and little is known about its behavior other than its regular annual trips to nesting beaches. It feeds in the morning and basks on the surface in the afternoon. Large groups of turtles gather together to bask in the afternoon to escape the freezing temperatures of the wat...

Eretmochelys imbricata, Hawksbill Turtle,Caret, Tortue Caret, Tortue imbriquée, Tortue à bec faucon, Tortue à écailles,Tortuga de Carey,سلحفاة صقرية المنقار

Features：It likes heat and fears cold, and can live up to 1,500 years, making it one of the longest-lived animals.

Hawksbill turtles are an animal that often migrates. They are highly mobile and swim fast. They are large and fierce carnivorous animals in the ocean and often appear in coral reefs. Hawksbill turtles have strong adaptability and resistance to their prey. Some of the sponges they feed on are highly...

Chelonia mydas,Green Turtle,Sea turtle, black turtle, stone turtle

Features：One of the largest hard-shelled sea turtles, it is named for the green color of its fat.

The green turtle, also known as the sea turtle, is one of the larger species of sea turtles. It is named because its body fat is rich in chlorophyll, the main food of seaweed. The gender of adult turtles is easy to identify, and the length of the tail is a gender characteristic. Generally speaking,...

Caretta,Loggerhead turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle

Features：The back of the head is brownish red, the sides of the head are light brown, the belly and jaws are yellow. The back of the neck is dark. The eyes are large, the carapace is brownish red, and the backs of the limbs are also brownish red.

The loggerhead sea turtle is a single species worldwide that spends most of its life in the open ocean and shallow waters. It rarely comes ashore, except for brief nesting and egg-laying by females. Hatchlings live in floating clumps of Sargassum. Adults and juveniles live on the continental shelf a...

Oncorhynchus,Big fish, Dafaha fish, Guoduo fish, Oyster fish, Chimon fish, Salmon, King salmon

Features：It looks like a bird, with small eyes and a big mouth, and has high nutritional value.

Salmon are distributed on both the east and west sides of the Pacific Ocean. In my country, the largest number of salmon are found in the Heilongjiang River, the Wusuli River, and the Songhua River. They are also found in the Tumen River, the Hunchun River, the Mi River, the Suifen River, the Nen Ri...

Xiphias gladius,swordfish,Swordfish, marlin, blue swordfish, tench

Features：The body is smooth, the back and body are brownish black, the upper jaw is long and pointed, the dorsal fin is small, the mouth is flat, and there are no gills or pelvic fins.

Swordfish (scientific name: Xiphias gladius), also known as "arrowfish". It is a common fish in tropical and subtropical oceans in the world. It is named because its upper jaw extends forward in a sword shape. A "speed comparison table of marine animals" published in the Soviet m...

Xiphias gladius,swordfish,Sailfish, swordfish, marlin, plantain fish, umbrella sailfish, flatfin sailfish

Features：The upper jaw of its mouth is like a sharp sword, and the first dorsal fin is long and tall, like a raised sail or a flag, so people call it sailfish.

There are two common types of sailfish: the oriental sailfish and the gray sailfish. Also known as flat sail, swordfish, and swordfish. Sailfish are river fish, and are pelagic fish active in tropical and subtropical oceans. They are ferocious by nature and swim fast. When attacking a target, they c...

Silurus asotus,Amur catfish, mullet, catfish, catfish, mullet, croaker, croaker, yellow croaker

Features：The body is cylindrical and dark gray or grayish yellow, with a flat head, a large mouth and whiskers.

Catfish is commonly known as pond catfish, also called catfish, belonging to the genus Siluridae and the family Siluridae. It is a ferocious carnivorous fish. It has strong adaptability, lives on the bottom, swims slowly, tolerates low oxygen, and can survive below 1 mg/L. During the day, it rarely...

Parabramis pekinensis,Changchun bream, grass bream, oil bream, long-bodied bream, chaotou bream, shrink-necked bream

Features：The head is very small, the mouth is small, long and rhombus-shaped, and silver-gray.

Bream can grow in still water or flowing water, and generally swims and feeds in the middle and lower layers. In China, it is distributed in the plains from Heilongjiang to the Pearl River and Hainan Province, but not in the Tumen River, Yalu River, and above the Longmen of the Yellow River. Juvenil...

Macrobranchium nipponense,Macrobrachium nipponense

Features：

River shrimps are widely distributed in rivers, lakes, reservoirs and ponds in my country. They are high-quality freshwater shrimps. They have tender meat, delicious taste and rich nutrition. They are high-protein and low-fat aquatic foods and are quite popular among consumers.Nutritional value of r...

Procambarus clarkii,Red Swamp Crayfish或Louisiana crayfish,Cambarus clarkii,Red crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, freshwater crayfish, red swamp crayfish

Features：Male lobsters have a bright red membrane on the front outer edge, which is very conspicuous. Females do not have this red membrane, so this has become an important feature to distinguish between males and females.

Crayfish is a freshwater economic shrimp that usually carries lung flukes and is widely popular because of its delicious meat. It has an absolute competitive advantage in the local ecological environment due to its omnivorous nature, fast growth rate, and strong adaptability. Its food range includes...

Palinuridae；lobster, prawns, dragon head prawns, shrimps, sea prawns

Features：The body size is the largest among shrimps, and the heaviest can reach more than 5 kilograms, and is called a tiger lobster.

Lobster (scientific name: Palinuridae) is the general name for species in the family Hominididae, class Arthropoda, order Decapoda, class Arthropoda. The Homaridae family includes 11 genera: Panulirus, Jasus, Justitia, Linuparus, Nupalirus, Palinurellus, Palinurus, Palinustus, Projasus, Puerulus, Sa...

Coilia nasus，Bitter fish, anchovies, hair fish, razorfish, hairy fish

Features：The body of knife fish is narrow and thin, like a sharp knife, silvery white, tender, but with many fine hair-like spurs. The meat is delicious, fat but not greasy, and slightly fragrant.

Knife fish, scientifically known as long-jawed anchovy, also known as knife anchovy and hairy anchovy, is a migratory fish. Knife fish usually live in the sea. They enter the river from the sea in February and March every year and migrate upstream for reproduction. Every spring, knife fish swim upst...

Monopterus albusApodidae, Apodidae, Genus Swiftlet, eel, yellow eel, field eel, field eel, long fish, blood fish, tilapia, scaleless prince

Features：The body is slender and snake-shaped, scaleless, and yellowish-brown in color. The body color often varies with the environment in which it lives.

Yellow eel (scientific name: Monopterus albus): also known as eel. It is a tropical and warm temperate fish, a bottom-dwelling fish with strong adaptability. It lives at the bottom of the water body, mainly in muddy waters such as rice fields, lakes, ponds, rivers and ditches, and even in swamps, fl...

Epinephelusspp.,Dragon grouper, dragon grouper,

Features：It has a thick body and a large mouth, which makes it unsuitable for long-distance and fast swimming.

Grouper is the general name for fish of the subfamily Epinephelinae, belonging to the class Osteichthyes, the subclass Neopterygii, the order Acanthopterygii, the order Perciformes, the suborder Percoidei, and the family Serranidae. It is a large and medium-sized warm-water marine fish, widely distr...

Larimichthys,yellow croaker,Yellow croaker, yellow croaker, kingfish

Features：The body is nearly rectangular and laterally flattened, with golden yellow sides and ventral side.

Yellow croaker, Larimichthys (D. S. Jordan et Starks, 1905), also known as yellow croaker, is a general term for a genus of yellow croaker in the family Sciaenidae. It is found in the East China Sea. There are two hard stones in the fish head, called otoliths, so it is also called stonehead fish. Th...

Larimichthys polyactis,Small yellow croaker, plum, plum fish, small king fish, small fresh, small spring fish, small cucumber fish, thick scale fish, flower fish, big eye, ancient fish, yellow scale f

Features：It is similar to large yellow croaker, but the difference between large yellow croaker and this species is that the caudal peduncle is more than 3 times longer than its height.

Small yellow croaker is a warm-temperate bottom-dwelling schooling migratory fish. It usually inhabits soft mud or muddy sea areas, and its vertical movement phenomenon will enter the estuary area. It hates strong light and likes turbid water. It rises at dusk and descends at dawn. It often inhabits...

Larimichthys crocea,Yellow croaker, yellow croaker, cucumber fish, golden dragon, big fresh, golden dragon, red melon, sweet-scented osmanthus yellow croaker, king fish, large yellow croaker

Features：It is similar to small yellow croaker, the main difference is that the caudal peduncle is thicker and more than twice as long as its height.

Pseudosciaena crocea is a warm and humid nearshore migratory fish. It often lives in the middle and lower layers of water within 60 meters. It likes turbid waters. It often floats at dawn, dusk or high tide, and sinks during daytime and low tide. It has the habit of swarming. In the reproductive sea...