Token Yellowhead MMD 2018

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Series "5 chervonets. The Red Book of the USSR. MMD"

Artist: Ivanov MA
Sculptor: Parfenov A.I.

Yellow-cheek (Elopichthys bambusa) is a species of carp family. It reaches 1.5-2 m in favorable conditions and weighs 30-40 kg. The body is elongated. It is distributed from the Amur basin to southern China in the rivers Sungari and Ussuri, Lake Khanka.

It is an active predator, feeding in the water column with smelt, eastern cat, chebak, crucian carp, catches and minnows. It reaches sexual maturity at 6 year old and at least 60 cm long. It spawns in the riverbed from early June to mid-August, on the Amur River from June till July. Caviar large - about 6 mm in diameter. Meat of yellow-cheeked pinkish color. Predatory fish, with an elongated pointed snout and with a very large terminal mouth. On the symphysis of the lower jaw there is a knob, which is included in the corresponding recess on the upper jaw.

The body is elongated, rolling. The scales are small. Yellow-cheeked hair reaches a length of 1.52 m and a weight of 3040 kg; This is the largest fish among carp fish of Cupid. Zheltoshchek distributed from the Amur basin to southern China, lives in a flat river flow. The back of the yellow-cheek is grayish or greenish, the sides are silvery, in large specimens with a golden sheen. On the cheeks on the yellow-golden spot, especially bright in large fish.

Dorsal and caudal fins dark, paired and anal light. Zheltoshchek spawns in Amur from the beginning of June to mid-July. Calf is large, its diameter with the shell is more than 6 mm, the larva hatch by the end of the second day. In the larvae about 20 mm long, there are horn teeth in the upper and lower jaws, which help to swallow mobile prey. The fry of the yellow-cheeked insect pass early on to feed on the young of other fish Zheltoshchek is an active predator that vigorously hunts for prey.