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Tumor starfish
Tumor starfish generally refers to starfish with a gentle temperament. Mainly lives in shallow tidal areas of the Indian Ocean abo···
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Acipenser sinensis
Sturgeon, sturgeon, yellow sturgeon, tuna, sturgeon shark, king tuna
The Chinese sturgeon is the largest and longest-lived freshwater fish. (After the extinction of the Chinese sturgeon)The Chinese s···
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Psephurus gladius
Chinese swordfish, sword-nosed white sturgeon, elephant fish, elephant nose fish, swordfish, sturgeon, anglerfish, tuna, Yangtze white sturgeon
The white sturgeon is one of the largest freshwater fish, named for its lighter color. It is also known as the harp fish, the swor···
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Acipenser dabryanus
Sand Lazi, small Lazi, sturgeon, sturgeon, Yangtze sturgeon
Acipenser dabryanus is a type of sturgeon. It is one of the precious large fish species unique to my country, and its external mor···
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Neohylomys hainanensis
Hainan hedgehog
The Hainan New Hairy Hedgehog is similar in appearance to the hairy hedgehog and the shrew hedgehog, and similar to the species of···
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Gazella subgutturosa
Antelope, gazelle, goitered gazelle, long-tailed gazelle
The goitered gazelle is a typical animal that lives in desert and semi-desert areas. It is shaped like a gazelle and is good at ru···
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Equus kiang
Tibetan donkey, wild horse
The Tibetan wild donkey is a unique animal on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is the only wild donkey species in the world and a nat···
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Procapra przewalskii
Yellow sheep, beach yellow sheep, beach gazelle, horned gazelle
In 1875, Russian naturalist Przewalski discovered this animal unique to China on the Ordos grassland in Inner Mongolia, China, but···
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Pantholops hodgsonii
Tibetan antelope, long-horned sheep
In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the mascot Fuwa Yingying is a cute Tibetan antelope.The origin of the Tibetan antelope provides···
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Moschus chrysogaster
Musk deer, musk deer, mountain musk deer
I have heard that musk deer are the best medicine in the world. As long as musk deer live in the forest, the air and water will be···
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Maja japonica
Japanese spider crab, giant crab, giant spider crab, Gan's giant crab, Gan's giant crab, tall crab
The Japanese spider crab is the largest crab in the world, and also the largest crustacean and arthropod in the world. It is a str···
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Enteroctopus dofleini
Giant North Pacific Octopus
As a representative of invertebrates, the octopus has a soft body and a hard mouth. The Pacific giant octopus is the largest one a···
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Tumor starfish
Zhenghaixing
Tumor starfish have extraordinary regenerative abilities. If a predator attacks them and they lose their arms, they can regrow the···
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Arapaima
Arapaima gigas
There is a kind of big fish in South America that is not afraid of piranhas. Not only that, they eat piranhas. This big fish that ···
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Atractosteus spatula
Alligator gar, ghost rocket, lucky crocodile, giant gar, malleus gar, crocodile rocket
The alligator gar is named for its short snout like an alligator and two rows of dagger-like teeth. It is the largest of the seven···
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Heteroconger hassi
Garden Eel,Heteroconger eel
Heteroconger eels live in groups of hundreds (sometimes thousands) of individuals. The largest males usually live in the center of···
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Whale shark
Rhincodon typus
The whale shark is the largest shark and the largest fish. It is named whale shark because of its huge whale-like body. The larges···
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Manta alfredi
Manta ray, coral reef manta ray, devil ray, flying bream, eagle bream
The appearance of the Aversonis manta ray is very similar to that of the birostris manta ray, and their distribution areas overlap···
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Sphyrna lewini
Scalloped hammerhead shark, red hammerhead shark, scalloped shark, hammerhead shark, double-breasted shark
The eyes and nostrils of the scalloped hammerhead shark are located on the left and right sides of the head. Unlike other hammerhe···
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Andrias davidianus
Chinese giant salamander, Chinese baby fish, giant salamander
You may not know much about the Chinese giant salamander, but you must have heard of its alias, the giant salamander. This thing h···
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Duttaphrynus melanostictus
black-rimmed toad, toad, clam
In 2006, the phylogenetic study of amphibians readjusted the original genus Bufo, and the black-rimmed toad was classified into a ···
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Cynops orientalis
Oriental Salamander, Chinese Fire Dragon, Brazilian Fire Dragon
The appearance of the Oriental Salamander is similar to that of the Blue-tailed Salamander (Cynops cyanurus), but the Oriental Sal···
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Xenopus laevis
African clawed frog, smooth clawed frog, African clawed frog
The African clawed frog is an aquatic frog in South Africa and an important model organism.The African clawed frog has two faces: ···
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Aldabrachelys gigantea
Aldabra giant tortoise, Seychelles giant tortoise, Darding giant tortoise, Arnold's giant tortoise
This tortoise was discovered by humans more than 400 years ago. At that time, people did not realize that it was a long-lived anim···
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