Gnathopogon caerulescens

The Gnathopogon caerulescens lives in the benthopelagic, freshwater environment.

HONMOROKO, GNATHOPOGON CAERULESCENS SAUVAGE, IN LAKE BIWA, JAPAN. : I. More

—1) Gnathopogon elongatus and Gnathopogon caerulescens are in the same genus. —2) They are characteristically delicious. On 6-10-2002 I had tasted together with my wife 4 autumn one-year-old Gnathopogon elongatus (they had the size of 7. More

Gnathopogon caerulescens and Gnathopogon elongatus etc. Gnathopogon caerulescens is a little bigger than Gnathopogon elongatus. Both have white meat. Both hardly have any characteristic fishy smell of river fish. More

The small fresh-water cyprinid Gnathopogon caerulescens lives in Japan. Its sex ratio is dependent to a considerable extent on temperature, with higher temperatures producing more males. More

Common names

Hon-moroko in Japanese (日本語)
Honmoroko in Japanese (日本語)
Hrouzenka modravá in Czech (česky)
ホンモロコ in Japanese (日本語)
暗色頜鬚鮈 in Mandarin Chinese
暗色颌须鮈 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Cypriniformes
Family : Cyprinidae
Genus : Gnathopogon
Species : Gnathopogon caerulescens
Authority : Sauvage, 1883