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What kind of fish is this? Does anyone know its real name?

This is a yellow catfish. We used to catch it when we were young.

Yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco), Siluriformes, Catfish family, Yellow catfish genus. Also known as yellow wax fish, gar teeth, yellow fin fish, yellow thorn bone, widely distributed in the Pacific waters of eastern China. Lives in shallows with still water or slow currents, hiding during the day and coming out at night. Body length 123-143mm, omnivorous, mainly feeds on benthic invertebrates, and its food is mostly small aquatic animals such as small fish and aquatic insects. Spawning in April-May, the parents have the habit of digging pits to build nests and protect their offspring. During the reproductive period, the male fish has the habit of building nests. The body is long, the abdomen is flat, and the rear part of the body is slightly flattened. The head is large and flat, the snout is round and blunt, the mouth is large and inferior, the upper and lower jaws have velvety fine teeth, and the eyes are small. There are 4 pairs of whiskers, and most species have particularly long whiskers on the upper jaw. Scaleless. Both the dorsal fin and the pectoral fin have well-developed hard spines, which can make sounds when the spines move. The pectoral fins are short. The body is greenish-yellow, with irregular brown markings in most species; the fins are gray-black with yellow.

The diet of yellow catfish is mainly carnivorous and omnivorous. Foraging activities are generally carried out at night. The food includes small fish, shrimp, various terrestrial and aquatic insects (especially chironomid larvae), small mollusks and other aquatic invertebrates, and sometimes small fish. Its diet varies with the environment and seasons. In spring and summer, it often swallows the eggs of other fish. In the cold season, there are more small fish in the food, and the benthic animals gradually decrease. The diet of yellow catfish of different sizes is also different. The body length of 2~4cm mainly feeds on copepods and cladocerans; the individuals with a body length of 5~8cm mainly feed on zooplankton and aquatic insects; the individuals over 8cm feed on mollusks and small fish.

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What is the name of the fish in the picture?

Pelteobagrus fulvidraco, commonly known as yellow bone fish, is also called yellow croaker or yellow croaker, yellow girl (in some areas of Jiangxi Province), and is also called yellow male fish in Fujian.

Chinese name: yellow bone fish

Other names include yellow horn fish, yellow bone fish, yellow sand fish, yellow croaker, thorny scar fish, thorny yellow stock, Goya, and Angci