Fish needle belongs to the family of a needle.There are about 200 species, and each type has a certain length of the body, which can be from 3 to 60 cm.
This fish lives up to its name.It can be compared with a needle or a faceted colored pencil.The body of this fish is thin, elongated with evenly spaced bone bulges like exoskeleton.The tail is fan-shaped, elongated.The dorsal fin is small, therefore, to develop a high speed, it can not.Painting - from yellow and dark green mottled to reddish tones.It may vary depending on the environment.Long tubular mouth, widening at the end.On the sides of the mouth are the scallops.Here's a she, fish needle.Photo shows it well.
teeth are missing, as they are not needed.Fish-needle eats small crustaceans, plankton, insect larvae, and will not give up on someone else's eggs.In search of food focused vision.Skittish.He spends most of his life between the stones in the thickets of sea plants, quietly lying on the bottom or moves slowly along the bottom.The slowness only danger makes it move faster, a snake curving body.For this ability also called zmeerybkoy.
Fish needle found in the Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, Caspian, Azov, Mediterranean Sea, and in the mouths of the rivers flowing into the sea, that is,in the warm waters.The average depth at which prefers to dwell on the order of 9-12 meters. And it is trying to stay close to the shore.It grows slowly, to five years in Black Sea fish reaches 19 cm in length and a weight of 5 g
Kids love catching her hands in the shallows.The caught fish are dried in the sun.Bring to the rest dried fish as a souvenir.
very interesting at this fish breeding process.Spawning occurs in May and June.After mating the female, the male wrapping her around, it spawns in the folds of skin on the ventral side of his body.In the process of throwing the eggs are fertilized.After filling the edge folds converge, forming a brood chamber, which occupies a third of the length of the male.If the calf was not enough, the male is able to take the eggs and females from each other.Being in the brood chamber, eggs (100 pieces) receive food and oxygen through the blood vessels of his father.
Vyluplyayas of them, fry some more time spent in the brood chamber.To release the fry, the male bends the arc and open brood pouch.In case of danger fry hiding.
Swedish scientists conducting experiments with fish-needle came to the conclusion that not all the eggs turn to fry.If the male is not enough food, some of their soluble, acting in his or her body.Digesting their contents, he continues to feed and doraschivat remaining.Fish needle - a vivid example of how nature wisely, seeking to maintain and continue life.
practical interest for the people she represents.The food fish and the needle is not used as bait is not suitable.Predatory fish on her claim only in the absence of other, more delicious food.
