Giant sea bream
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The giant bream ( Megalobrama amblycephala ), chin. 团 头 鲂, 團 頭 魴, 武昌鱼 or 團 頭 魴, engl. Wuchang Bream , Blunt Snout Bream or Wu Chang Fish, is a carp-like species from China that is very similar in habit to the European bream .
description
The high-backed giant sea bream have a black-gray color on the back and turn silvery-white on the underside of the belly. Some specimens have vertical black stripes on their flanks. The fins are colored green-gray. Megalobrama amblycephala has the following fin formula : dorsal 3/7, anal 3 / 25-27. The fish can reach a length of up to 2 meters. While the largest specimen caught with a line in 1997 from Zhejiang Province weighed only 5.9 kilograms and was around 70 centimeters long, professional fishermen caught Wuchang bream up to around 70 kilograms in the Yangtze River.
distribution and habitat
The Giant Bream is found in some Chinese waters such as the Yangtze River , Lake Newshan (a bay of Lake Liangzi) and Lake Yuli. The fish was also introduced to some regions of Japan and Taiwan , as well as the Philippines and Kibbutz Gan Shmuel in Israel . Giant disc bream prefer deep pools in rivers, calm stretches of water with slow currents and lots of aquatic plants. They can be found in a number of lowland rivers, reservoirs, and lakes.
Way of life
The giant disc bream prefers waters of the temperate climate zone with average water temperatures of 10 to 20 ° C. He usually lives at great depths of five to 20 meters. The fish is herbivorous .
use
Megalobrama amblycephala is an edible fish in China and is kept in aquacultures and pond farms , where it is mainly fed with soy meal. Chinese geneticists are currently working on improving the breeding of giant sea bream.
Web links
- Megalobrama amblycephala inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Zhao, H., 2011. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Translating the blunt-mouth bream
- ↑ a b c d e f Giant Bream on Fishbase.org (English)
- ^ Fishing World Records
- ↑ http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Megalobrama+amblycephala&b=FB285
- ↑ http://www.fao.org/docrep/field/003/ac264e/AC264E01.htm
- ↑ Michael C. Cremer, Zhang Jian & Zhou Enhua: Wuchang Bream ( Megalobrama amblycephala ) Fry to Fingerling Growth Performance on Soymeal-Based Feeds. (online: PDF )
- ↑ Establishment of fertile tetraploid population of blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala), doi : 10.1016 / j.aquaculture.2004.05.020
- ↑ SF Li and Cai WQ: Genetic improvement of the herbivorous blunt snout bream ( Megalobrama amblycephala ). (online: PDF )