Amur Barbel

Body spots absent in adults. Elongated body with slightly convex dorsal profile. Head length longer than body depth. Snout length much longer than postorbital head length. Lips well developed, lateral lobes of lower lip broad and thick, with folds, the median process small. Barbel length slightly thick, shorter or equal to eye diameter. Dorsal spine strong, 2/3 of HL. Origin of dorsal fin nearer the tip of snout than the caudal base. Gill rakers more than 15 (Ref. 38453). Anal fin with 6 1/2 branched rays; last simple dorsal rays ossified, spine-like (Ref. 43281).

Potamodromous. Migrating within streams, migratory in rivers, e.g. Saliminus, Moxostoma, Labeo. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km.

Vertebrae: 40 - 42

Omnivorous, feeding mainly on benthic invertebrates (Ref. 41299). Females are larger than males (Ref. 1441).

fisheries: commercial

分布於中國大陸、越南北部、朝鮮半島、俄羅斯及臺灣。臺灣主要分布於淡水河系。

主要以垂釣捕獲，全年可釣。中大型食用魚，煎、炸、紅燒皆宜。

體延長，略側扁，腹部圓形。頭大而尖。吻長而突出。口下位，弧形，唇厚而發達，口部可略向前下方伸出。咽頭齒3列，齒式5.3.1-1.3.5。鰓耙數15-20。有鬚1對。體被中小型的圓鱗，有銀色光澤；側線完全而略平直。背鰭硬棘 III，分枝軟條 7-8；臀鰭 3(不分枝軟條)+6(分枝軟條)；胸鰭末端不達腹鰭起點。體呈銀白色，體背側呈淡青綠色，腹部白色。幼魚的體側具有一縱列8-10個不明顯的黑斑，成魚則消失。

初級淡水魚。喜棲息於水流略急而寬廣水域的潭區中下水層，平常大多群游在水域底層。在大雨過後，河水暴漲且變得混濁時，則較為活躍而到處覓食。主要以水生昆蟲、蝦或螺類為食。

The barbel steed (Hemibarbus labeo) is a species of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found throughout the Amur basin in eastern Asia to northern Vietnam, Japan and islands of Hainan and Taiwan.