Cyprinidae Scientific name varicorhinus (scaphesthe) barbatulus (pel1egrin) Body fusiform, slightly flat side. Head width is short. Kiss blunt. Mouth wide, horizontal crack, crack on both sides of the mouth near the head and ventral side of the edge of the head is about 2 times the width of the mouth. Limited mouth lower lip. Horny jaws sharp edges. Be two pairs, are very short. Dorsal fin without quills. Living in the lower river, often more acute in the water, gravel substrate of the section of the river activities, scraping the algae and plant food debris. Individual medium-large areas of the economy for the fish. Located in Pearl River, Minjiang River, Spirit River and Taiwan.
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Marine life
Taiwan shovel jaw fish Taiwan native species; body length, side flat type, the body is a small round scales, forked tail; mouth wide, crescent-shaped transverse cracking, pleated upper front kiss developed into a shovel-like lower jaw; dorsal yellow-green, silvery white belly . Common size 10 to 22 cm, the maximum size of more than 40 cm. Mainly inhabit the upper reaches of rivers, swimming strong, likes the rapids, like habitat in the high oxygen flow rate of cold rushing waters; omnivorous, often gregarious feeding Sidi attached to the gravel bed of algae and organic debris. One of the main stream fishing for the species, uppercut after the pull amazingly; year fish about 10 cm, 2-year fish about 18 cm; mature size of about 18 cm. In recent years, due to high demand, people with electricity, poison, net, forks and other destructive means a lot to capture, there is a small trend, suggest appropriate targets to catch more than 20 cm size.