Gagata dolichonema

IUCN

Alias：Gagata dolichonema

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：Gagata dolichonema
Aliases：Gagata dolichonema
Outline：Small fish
Family：Siluriformes Catanidae Melanocephalus

Vital signs

length：Up to 13 cm
Weight：No verification information
lifetime：It lives in the middle waters of large rivers, and its living habits are unknown.

Feature

The body is long and flat, with narrow dorsal side and wide and flat head and trunk ventrally. The head is flattened laterally and the bone ridges are covered with thin skin.

Details

Latin scientific name of filament black HeiGagata dolichonema,<span style ="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "PingFang SC", "Hiragino Sans GB", "Microsoft YaHei", "WenQuanYi Micro Hei", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-indent: It likes to hide on the surface of rocks at the bottom of the water with its head and body ventral side up, and hunts and swims by leaping movements.

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Listed in "List of China’s National Key Protected Wild Animals》Level 2.

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Location

It is a small fish that lives at the bottom of mountain streams in the southern foothills of the Himalayas and the western Hengduan Mountains.
In China, it is distributed in the Lancang River basin in Yunnan and other places.

Form

Snout blunt, longer than eye diameter. Eyes large. Short barbels between nostrils; maxillary barbels reach pectoral fin base and inner edge is membrane-lined. Four chin barbels in a horizontal row behind lips. Gill openings reach ventral side of head. Gill membranes connected to gill septa. Mouth transversely fissured, inferior. Teeth velvety, palatine bone toothless. Lips with spurs. Anterior segment of lateral line high. Body scaleless. Dorsal fin rays 1-6, longer than head; adipose fin; anal fin rays Ⅲ-10; pectoral fin rays 1-9, low; pelvic fins 1-5; caudal fin forked. Anterior chamber of swim bladder is divided into left and right chambers. Body dark yellow-gray, caudal fin pale folded, other fins tip black.