China pomfret (scientific name: Rhodeus sinensis) belongs to the genus Pomfret of CYPRINIDAE. The side view of the body is oval and very flat. The body is the highest at the starting point of the dorsal fin, and the back edge has a shallow depression at the back head. The kiss is blunt and shorter than the eye diameter. The center of the eye. The width of the eye spacing is slightly larger than the eye length. The nostrils are slightly in front of the eyes. Small mouth, front position, arc not needed. The branchial foramen is large, outward, and the lower end reaches below the posterior edge of the eye.
This fish scale is slightly larger; The scale of the stamping die is transverse oval, the front end is straight, the distance between the scale center and the back end is three times that of the front end, and the radial line is backward. Most of the lateral lines have disappeared, and only 3 ~ 6 scales at the front end have lateral line tubes. The dorsal fin begins slightly in front of or behind the front and back center of the body (when the body length is less than 28 mm). The gluteal fin starts from the 4th to 5th branch below the base of dorsal fin, which is similar to dorsal fin, and the Quillo of fin is shorter.
The pectoral fin starts slightly in front of the dorsal fin and extends to the anal fin. The caudal fin is deeply forked. The back of fresh fish is yellow, gray and black, and there is no black longitudinal stripe in the middle line of the back; The body side and lower part are silvery white; The tail has a black longitudinal grain along the side midline, and the front end of the grain is very thin; Each fin is light yellow, and the dorsal fin and caudal fin are darker in color; There is a black spot on the front edge of the dorsal fin of female fish, and the fallopian tube protrudes during reproductive period, especially in male fish.
Chinese thrush inhabits the bottom of shallow water areas such as freshwater lakes, reservoirs and rivers, and likes to swim in groups in water bodies with slow water flow and lush aquatic plants. Larvae China pomfret is an omnivorous fish, distributed from Liaoning to Guangxi in China, and also produced in the southwest of Korea.
In China, it is widely distributed in major water systems such as Heilongjiang, Yellow River, Yangtze River and Pearl River, and reaches Minjiang River in the west of the Yangtze River basin. In the Yellow River Basin, it is distributed in Zhouzhi and Huayin in Guanzhong Basin of Shaanxi Province, Ruicheng in southern Shanxi Province, Luoyang, gongyi city and Kaifeng in Henan Province, and Jinan in Shandong Province.