What's with the zombie fish? Can I eat it?

There is such an animal, it looks like an ordinary eel, but its mouth is cylindrical, there is no upper and lower palate, the mouth has sharp teeth, this is the zombie fish. So, what's with the zombie fish? Can I eat it?

What's wrong with zombie fish?

1. The scientific name of zombie fish is lamprey, also known as eight-order eel, seven-star son, small brittle bones, it is an animal of round mouth and lamprey, which has no jaws and is full of sharp teeth, which is one of the characteristics of ancient fish ancestors. Therefore, it is a jawless vertebrate and the most primitive vertebrate known, and it does not belong to the same category as fish, so it is not a fish.

2. The zombie fish has a slender, eel-shaped body with bare and scaleless epidermis, with a long dorsal fin and two dorsal fins on its back; the mouth is at the bottom of the funnel, and there are many yellow horny teeth on both sides of the mouth; there is a nostril, which is located between the top of the head and two eyes, with developed eyes, pineal eyes and photosensitivity, and there are 7 Gill holes on each side of the body behind the eyes; the back is bluish green in life and the abdomen is gray-white.

3. Zombie fish have no jaws and are full of sharp teeth, which is one of the characteristics of ancient fish ancestors. Its mouth is funnel-shaped, distributed with a circle of teeth, a round sucker that can absorb big fish, and likes to live on salmon and cod. Sometimes they attack fierce carnivorous fish such as barracuda and bowfin fish.

Second, where are zombie fish distributed?

1. Zombie fish are distributed in northeast China, Europe, northern Asia, Korea, Japan and North America. They live in cold and mild waters. Some live in fresh water for life, some live in the sea in their early years, and then swim to freshwater rivers to lay eggs.

2. Zombie fish can be divided into five types: American stream lampreys, sea lampreys, Japanese lampreys, northeast lampreys and arctic lampreys. Among them, the American stream lampreys mainly live in the streams in the northeast of the United States, and the Japanese lampreys are distributed in the Heilongjiang River, Tumen River, Korea, Japan and the far East of Russia. the northeast lampreys are distributed in Yalu River, Prince River, Hun River, Biliu River, Jiamusi Section of Songhua River, North Korea and other areas.

3. Zombie fish drill into the sand or gravel during the day and come out to look for food at night; the larvae live in fresh water, dig holes at the bottom of the water and feed on microorganisms, and the adults will adsorb on other fish with sucker-like mouths. Use the cutin teeth on both sides of the mouth of the sucker and the horny teeth on the tongue to file through the fish and feed on its blood and flesh.

Can zombie fish be eaten?

Zombie fish are edible.

1. The upper class of Europe has regarded it as a delicacy since the Middle Ages. It is recorded in the literature that King Henry I of England loved it, but now, in some countries in southern Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, etc.) and South Korea in East Asia, it is considered to be an expensive famous dish.

2. The meat of zombie fish contains more vitamin A, which is higher than that of ordinary fish; the skin of zombie fish contains more vitamin B1 and B12, which is also much higher than other fish; it has the effect of calming the liver and eyesight and nourishing strength. it can treat night blindness, dry cornea and skewed mouth and eyes.

Zombie fish is not fish, it is jawless vertebrates, but also the most primitive vertebrates known, is an intermediate point in the evolution of invertebrates into fish, is the most primitive class of fish. Zombie fish is edible, and it is still an expensive dish in some countries in Europe and East Asia.