
Hucho bleekeri
Hucho bleekeri,Sichuan Taimen, Bailey Taimen, Tiger Fish, Catfish
Features:It is the only surviving Taimen salmon on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The Latin name of Sichuan-Shaanxi Taimen is Hucho bleekeri. It is the southernmost (29-33°N) species among the five Taimen species in the world.Sichuan-Shaanxi Tailer is a cold-water fish that likes to live in deep river bays and flowing water environments, with gravel or sandy bottoms and mountain...

Brachymystax lenok(Pallas
Brachymystax lenok(Pallas,Qinling Slimy Salmon
Features:It is a remnant species that migrated from the north to the south during the Ice Age.
Brachymystax lenok (Pallas,) is a relic species that migrated from the north to the south during the Ice Age and is a cold-water foothill fish.Brachymystax lenok feeds actively all year round. It mainly feeds on invertebrates, small fish, etc., and also preys on frogs and small rodents. It is extrem...

Bagarius yarrelli
Bagarius yarrelli,Eagle tank, tank duckbill, eagle duckbill, papaya fish
Features:One of the most powerful fish in the order Siluriformes
The Latin name of the giant yarrelli is Bagarius yarrelli, which belongs to the order Siluriformes, family Scyphidae, and the genus Scyphus.The food is mainly small fish. It is slow-moving and greedy, and can be caught with a dragnet or sinking hook. Individuals are large, weighing more than 50kg. T...

Bagarius rutilus
Bagarius rutilus
Features:The name comes from the orange color of its pectoral fins, which resembles a giant bream in appearance.
The name of the red mullet comes from the orange color on its pectoral fins, not because it is produced in the Red River.The red mullet is ferocious and predatory. It mainly feeds on small fish, frogs and shrimps. It breeds around May to June.The biggest difference between the red catfish and the gi...

Bagarius bagarius
Bagarius bagarius,Yellow croaker, yellow croaker
Features:The head and front of the body are particularly thick and flat, with the dorsal margin at the starting point of the dorsal fin being the highest point of the body and gradually decreasing in depth. The caudal peduncle is round and the ventral surface is flat.
The Latin name of the fish is Bagarius bagarius, which is one of the species of the genus Bagarius in the family Siluridae of the order Siluriformes of the class Actinopterygii. It is commonly known as the melon fish.The fish is a carnivorous fish, fierce and predatory. It feeds on mollusks and smal...

Glyptosternum maculatum
Glyptosternum maculatum,Stone flat head
Features:The body surface is smooth and scaleless, the body is elongated, and the ventral surface is flat
It is the species with the highest distribution altitude among the family of fish, and can be found in waters with an altitude of about 4,500 meters.The black-spotted yao mainly lives in rock crevices and feeds on insect eggs or young fish. The number of chromosomes of the black-spotted protist is 2...

Euchiloglanisdavidi(
Euchiloglanisdavidi(, Stone Climber
Features:The body is elongated, the head is flat, and the length of the head is about the same as the width of the head
The Latin name of the bluestone catfish is Euchiloglanisdavidi (Sauvage, 1874), which is a fish of the genus Euchiloglanis of the family Euchiloglanidae.The bluestone catfish is a freshwater bottom fish. It is not very active and lives in the caves of rapids, clinging to the stone with its suction c...

Gagata dolichonema
Gagata dolichonema
Features: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.
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Liobagrus kingi
Liobagrus kingi
Features:The adipose fin is connected to the caudal fin with a notch in the middle
King's mullet (Liobagrus kingiTchang,1935) is an animal of the genus Liobagrus in the family Amblycephalus.King's mullet is a small fish that likes flowing water and mainly feeds on aquatic insects and small fish and shrimps.Listed in the second level of the "List of National Key...

Pangasius sanitwongsei
Giant catfish, Genghis Khan fish
Features:It can grow up to 300 cm long and weigh 300 kg, making it one of the largest catfish in the world.
The Genghis Khan fish is a native fish species of the Mekong and Chao Phraya rivers in Southeast Asia. It is a large carnivorous fish and the most ferocious fish in the entire Mekong and Chao Phraya rivers. It mainly feeds on crustaceans and fish. They are migratory. They usually spawn before the mo...

Silurus mento
Silurus mento,Kunming-lakecatfish,Dianchi catfish
Features:The body is light yellow, the abdomen is grayish white, and there are irregular spots on the sides of the body.
Kunming catfish (scientific name: Silurus mento), foreign name Kunming-lakecatfish, belongs to the genus Silurus of the family Siluridae of the order Siluriformes, and is endemic to China.Kunming catfish is a carnivorous fish that likes to live in lakeshores with abundant aquatic plants. It hides at...

Mystus guttatus
Mystus guttatus,Sesame, plum blossom, sea bream, sesame sea bream, white-bearded sea bream
Features:Looks like a catfish, once the "king of freshwater"
Mystus guttatus is a species of the genus Mystus in the family Myscidae. It is also called shad, sesame shad, white-bearded shad, and swordfish and pliers in rural Guangdong. It is large in size, with common individuals weighing 1-2 kg, and some large ones weighing 5-10 kg, and the largest can reach...

Yaoshania pachychilus
Yaoshania pachychilus,Panda fish, panda shark, golden band panda climbing rock loach
Features:Its body is distinctly black and white, like a small panda in the water.
The scientific name of the thick-lipped loach is Yaoshania pachychilus (Chen, 1980), a species of fish in the genus Yaoshania of the family Cyprinidae.Thick-lipped Protostomus was discovered by Academician Chen Yiyu in Dayao Mountain, Guangxi, China in 1980. At that time, it was classified under the...

Triphophysa minuta
Triphophysa minuta
Features:The individual is very small
Triphophysa minuta (Li, 1966) is a small fish of the genus Triphophysa of the family Cobitidae. It lives in a vast area of Xinjiang.Listed in the second level of the "List of National Key Protected Wildlife in China".Protect wild animals and stop eating game.Maintaining ecological balance...

T.xiangxiensis
T.xiangxiensis, formerly known as Xiangxi blind loach
Features:The pectoral fin grows faster than the body length and can reach the caudal fin
Xiangxi blind loach (T.xiangxiensis) is a fish of the genus T.xiangxiensis of the family Cobitidae. It is a cold-water cave fish that is only distributed in the Yuanjiang River system in Xiangxi, Hunan Province. It is a species endemic to my country.In 1984, the blind fish was discovered in an under...

Triplophysa siluroides
Triplophysa siluroides,Catfish, catfish, slab head
Features:The head is large, flat, triangular in dorsal view, with a large, inferior, arc-shaped mouth.
Triplophysa siluroides, scientific name: Triplophysa siluroides (Herzenstein, 1888), is a fish of the genus Triplophysa in the family Cobitidae, and is the largest species in the family Cobitidae.The plateau loach often likes to lurk in the river sections with deep and turbulent gravel bottoms such...

Oreonectes anophthalmusZheng
Oreonectes anophthalmusZheng
Features:Fish for research purposes, no fishery value
The eyeless loach is named Oreonectes anophthalmusZheng in Latin. The eyeless loach found in Wuming is one of the earliest blind fish species found in my country. It is the second eyeless and pigmentless loach reported in the world. The number is extremely small. The eyeless loach has a very high st...

Leptobotia elongata
Leptobotia elongata,Flower fish, spotted loach, flower loach, red sand loach, fire army, flower loach
Features:A ferocious bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish, one of the largest loaches in the world
Leptobotia elongata (scientific name: Leptobotia elongata) is a fish of the genus Leptobotia in the family Cobitidae of the order Cypriniformes. It is a giant among loaches and one of the largest loaches in the world.The long thin loach is a warm-water bottom fish that likes to live in the middle an...

Leptobotia flavolineata
Leptobotia flavolineata,Cow's tail, blind man
Features:There are more than 10 wide yellow-brown horizontal stripes on the sides of the body
The yellow-lined loach (scientific name: Leptobotia flavolineata) is a species of the genus Leptobotia, family Cypriniformes, class Actinopterygii, and is endemic to China.The yellow-lined loach looks very similar to the garfish, but the larger ones are much larger than the garfish. People in...

Leptobotia rubrilabris
Leptobotia rubrilabris ,Red needle, red lipped loach
Features:Named after the reddish fish mouth
Red-lipped loach, Leptobotia rubrilabris (Dabry de Thiersant, 1872), belongs to the Cypriniformes, Cobitidae, and the genus Leptobotia. It is a fish endemic to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.The red-lipped loach is larger, second only to the long loach. It has edible value. The population is...

Hypophthalmichthys harmandi
Hypophthalmichthys harmandi,Silver carp, silver carp
Features:It has excellent economic traits such as high fat content, fast growth, large fatness and large trunk.
Hypophthalmichthys harmandi Sauvage, 1884 is a species of the genus Hypophthalmichthys in the family Cyprinidae and is a freshwater economic fish native to Hainan Island, Guangdong.Silver carp is a freshwater economic fish in Hainan Island, Guangdong Province. It mostly lives in open waters with slo...