Collect
Check out my collection
0
Useful +1
The sea dragon is
animalia
Chordate phylum
Osteopichthys
Any of a group of small Marine fishes of the order Acanthodontidae in the class Acanthodontidae, also known as Yangzhifish and tubulostoma. The sea dragon is named for its resemblance to the legendary dragon and has abundant interspecific phenotypic variation. Head with long tubular mouth, small mouth cleft, no teeth; The eyes are large and round, the eyes are wide apart, and the orbit is prominent; Two nostrils on each side, smaller and less pronounced. The body surface has no scales, no ventral fins, and the body is covered with bone rings, which are heptagonal, tapering from the trunk to the tail, and the tail rings are quadrilateral, and the tail is curled. The gill covers are prominent and the gill pores are narrow. The common species are leafy sea dragon, coarse rostris sea dragon, diorhynchus, pseudosea dragon and so on.
The sea dragon is a small warm water fish in the offshore, and it mostly lives in the seaweed cluster in the coastal and reef areas of the ocean. The sea dragon moves slowly, sucking aquatic life with its long tubular beak. Sea dragons are good at camouflage and hiding, often avoiding predation by mimicking the morphology of seaweed or macroalgae in their environment, by hiding in burrows or crevices, or by using their hard bone rings. The sea dragon can reproduce throughout the year, the female fish will mature eggs into the male fish abdomen or tail sac, eggs in the pouch fertilized and incubated, until the embryo mature by the male fish "birth".
Sea dragon taste sweet, salty, warm, liver, kidney meridian. It has the function of warming kidney and strengthening Yang, dispersing knot and eliminating swelling
impotence
Spermatogenesis, mass accumulation, scrofula phlegm nucleus, fall and flapping injury, external treatment of pain carbuncle swollen pustule. The sea dragon can warm the kidney and cure asthmatic, with walnut meat can treat the kidney can not carry qi deficiency asthmatic. The sea dragon can also soften the hard and remove the swelling, and is often combined with leeches to treat the accumulation of mass. Decoction dosage 5-15 grams, or into the powder, pregnant women and Yin deficiency fire should not take.
[2]
- Chinese name
- Sea arowana
- alias
- Twig fish , Money string
- Latin name
- Syngnathussp
- world
- animalia
- The door
- Chordate phylum
- subphyla
- Vertebrate subphyla
- The outline
- Osteopichthys
- subclass
- Radiopterygii
- Orders,
- gasterosteiformes
- Families,
- Syngnathidae
- Belong to
- Sixty genera
- Kind of
- More than 150 kinds
【 Origin and sales habits 】 Mainly produced in Guangdong Yangjiang, Huiyang, Baoan, Haifeng,
Sea dragon
【 Chemical composition 】
Sea dragon contains a variety of cystine, protein, fatty acid, steroid and many kinds of
Inorganic element
.
Syngnathus acutipes
It also contains cholesterols and cholesten-4-keto-3 (Cholest-4-en-3-one). Modern medical research believes that the sea dragon has an exciting effect on the human body, the effect of tonifying the kidney and aphrodisiac is very obvious, and it is a good medicine for the treatment of impotence, and its effect is often more than the hippocampus.
The body is long and slightly flat, the middle is slightly thick, the tail is tapered and slightly curved, 20-40 cm long, the middle diameter of 2-2.5 cm, the head has a long tubular mouth, the upper and lower sides of the mouth with fine teeth, there are two deep-set eyes. The surface is yellowish-white or grayish-brown, and the yellowish-white one has two grayish-brown bands on either side of the back edge. There are 5 longitudinal edges above the middle, and 4 longitudinal edges below the middle, with a circular pattern and a thin transverse edge. The bone is hard. Smell slightly fishy, taste slightly salty. It is better to have large, white, neat head and tail.
Australian sea dragon
From ancient and mysterious Australia
Primitive life is intertwined with modern civilization
In addition to the koala, another national treasure species - the Australian gold dragon
Australian sea dragon
Growing in the sea grass of the Australian ocean floor, the adult sea dragon is about a foot long, not to look at them as floating sea grass, but a closer look will show that they really have some dragon form.
The sea dragon is actually a fish animal, and its skin is covered with a layer of armor like bone. It has good eyesight, feeds on tiny shrimp and sea fleas, and since it has no teeth, it sucks food into its tiny mouth when it sees it.
Like all fish, sea dragons lay eggs and reproduce. The difference is that the male carries out the pregnancy process. The female lays her eggs on the male's tail and then leaves. The eggs hatch in the male's tail for about five weeks.
Once hatched, the baby sea dragon can see, swim, and must find its own food to live independently, as its father is not responsible for the care of the baby sea dragon. It takes two years for the baby to reach adulthood.
Solenognathus hardwickii (Gray)
Gasterosteiformes (Syngnathidae) Any of over 150 fishes related to the seahorse. The body is extremely slender and surrounded by rings of bone like the hippocampus. With long tubular snout, small mouth, one
Dorsal fin
, often with a small
Caudal fin
. Body length varies from species to species, ranging from 2.5-50 cm (1-20 in). Found in warm water areas, mainly Marine, but some live in or enter fresh water. Very delicate, slow-moving, often living in seaweed,
zosteria
Or other
Aquatic plant
In the cluster, you can eat and hide. To suck up tiny aquatic creatures.
Reproductive behavior
Like seahorses, the male carries the fertilized eggs until they hatch. The egg may be attached to the body surface, buried in a spongy tissue area, or contained in the brood sac, which is formed by a long skin fold. Related to the sea dragon
Razorfish
Solenostomidae (Solenostomidae) is a small, rare fish of the Indo-Pacific Ocean having enlarged snout fins that also hatch with eggs, but are carried by the female in a brood sac formed by the healing of the ventral fins.
Marine fish with long, narrow body and flat side. Total length 37-50 cm. The body height is far greater than the body width. The trunk is five prisms, six prisms in front of the tail, tapering to four prisms at the rear, and curled at the tail end. Dorsal fin 41-42;
Anal fin
4; Pectoral fin 23. Bone ring 25-26+56-57. belly
Central edge
Particularly prominent, upper ridge
Coarse strength
A granular protruding spine was formed in the center of each edge and on each interscutum of the bone annulus. The head is long, on the same horizontal line with the body axis, or forming a large obtuse Angle with the body axis. There were coarse granular spines of different sizes around the orbit, dorsal ventral surface of the rostral canal and posterior end of the top. The dorsal part of the neck is ridged, with 2 cervical spines. The kiss is particularly prolonged, about twice as long as the posterior orbital head. The eyes are large and round, the orbits are prominent, the eye spacing is smaller than the eye diameter, and the eyes are sunken. The nostrils, two on each side, are small and located in front of the anterior margin. Small mouth, front position. When the mouth is closed, the slit is almost vertical. The two jaws are small and slightly telescopic. No teeth.
operculum
Protruding, without raised ridge, with distinct radial lines. The branchial pores are small and hiatal, located near the dorsal margin of the head. The anus is located on the posterior abdomen of 1/2 of the body. The scale is bony, and all of them are double bone, forming a ring. The trunk is discontinuous with the upper lateral edge of the tail. The dorsal fin is long, the base is not raised, completely located in the tail; It starts at tail ring 1 and ends at 10 or 11. The anal fin is small and located behind the anus. The pectoral fins are short and wide and low laterally. No caudal fin. The body is light yellow, there is a row of dark brown spots at the junction of the bone ring on the upper side of the trunk, and the fins are light.
It prefers to live outside the lush coastal algae, and its habits and reproduction are similar to those of seahorses. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica relics" record: "this object has male and female, female yellow, male green." The male fish has a brood pouch on the front and abdomen of the tail, which is responsible for breeding young fish. This product has no edible value and is for medicinal purposes only.
Syngnathoides biaculeatus (Bloch)
Sea dragon
It is found in the South China Sea, Japan, the Philippines, the Indian Ocean, the east coast of Africa and the seas of Australia.
Syngnathus acus L. (S. schlegeli)
The body is slender and whiplash, with a total length of 11-20 cm. The trunk is seven prismatic, the tail is four prismatic, and the tail is tapered behind. Body height and width are nearly equal. The head is long and pointed. The snout is tubular, larger than 1/2 the length of the head.
operculum
Eminence, anterior base 1/3, with a straight eminence ridge, the ridge behind the radial stripe. The body is scaleless and encased in a ring of bone. The lateral edge of the lower trunk is continuous with the lateral edge of the lower tail, and the lateral edge of the trunk is continuous with the lateral edge of the upper tail. The median ventral edge ends in front of the anus. The dorsal fin is longer, beginning at the most terminal ring and ending at the ninth caudal ring. The anal fin is short and tight behind the anus. The pectoral fins are fan-shaped and low in position. The caudal fin is long and the posterior margin is rounded. The body is greenish-yellow, the ventral side is light yellow, and the body has many irregular dark transverse bands. Dorsal, anal and pectoral fins light, caudal fin dark brown.
It is found along the coast of China, in Indonesia, and in the seas of East Africa. A search list of the above three protoanimals:
- 1.
No caudal fin, tail curled.
- 2.
- 3.
The body is flat on the side, and the head forms a large obtuse Angle or right Angle with the body axis Diao Hailong Solenognathus hardwickii
- 4.
The sea dragon is fertile all year round, usually from April to September production is larger, most of the world's animals are by the female body to reproduce, but the sea dragon is on the contrary, their "bearing children" is carried out by the "father". The male sea dragon has a pouch formed by two skin folds on the abdomen of the tail. During mating, the female sea dragon lays eggs in the "pouch" of the male sea dragon, and the eggs are fertilized and incubated in the pouch. After about 10 to 20 days, the baby sea dragon was born, but it did not immediately leave the "father", has been taken care of by the "father".
Usually, the male sea dragon will put down the tail, the mouth of the bag will open, and the small sea dragon will file out of the bag one by one, if there is wind and grass in the outside world, the small sea dragon will quickly get into the bag, and the mouth of the bag will automatically close to ensure its life safety. It can be seen that the hardships of the small sea dragon "father" and its great paternal love. However, when the baby sea dragon can live freely in the sea, their parents are not obligated to feed their children, and the baby sea dragon has to hunt for food on its own, chasing small creatures in the sea to feed itself.
【 Preparation 】 Sea dragon: brush with water, cut or mash. Wine-made sea dragon: Remove sea dragon, moisten with rice wine, bake over low heat until yellow and crisp.
【 Channel 】 liver; Kidney channel
[Usage and dosage] For internal administration: decoction, 3-9g; Finish, 1.5-3g. External use: appropriate amount, ground and mixed.
[Note] Pregnant women and
Yin deficiency fire flourishing
Those with external symptoms should be forbidden to take it.
【 Various dissertations 】
1. "Compendium relics" : Gong times hippocampus. Give birth to the rapid effect.
2. 's
Modern practical Chinese medicine
": For a strong drug, has an exciting effect, used for the elderly and the weak of the spirit. Treat blood gas pain.
3. 's
Identification manual of Chinese medicine
": Tonifying kidney and strengthening Yang. Cure impotence, sterility.
1, sea dragon with 莵 silk: Sea dragon tonifying kidney Zhuang Yang, 莵 silk tonifying Yang Yin, solid essence shrinkage. Two drugs used together, tonifying the kidney stronger work, with kidney deficiency impotence, spermatogenesis, infertility and so on.
2, the sea dragon with walnut meat: the sea dragon warm kidney and asthma, Hu Taoren warm lung and cough, the two go together, a total of kidney toning lung asthma, with treatment
The kidney can't hold qi
The lack of breath.
3, the sea dragon with leech: the sea dragon can soft and firm and diffuse swelling, leech can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. The two drugs are used together to play the function of promoting blood circulation and eliminating disease, and to treat the accumulation of mass.
It is produced all year round, usually from April to September, when the fishermen catch the fish together with the fish, wash and dry, or remove the black skin film and internal organs, wash and dry.
In May 2019, the Sea dragon exhibition was held at the Birch Aquarium in San Diego, California.
[1]
