the mud-fish or bald-pike (until 60 cm) is the single survivor of an order of original bone-fish, who still were very widespread in the law (approximately 150 million years ago). Today, the mud-fish are to be only found in the eastern North America; they populate quiet, plant-rich places in rivers and seas there.
Shape The pike-similar body gloomily marbled on brown-green reason carries a long back-fin and is covered with a small round-shed. The male shows a showy one, gelbgerandeten stain in the basis of the tail fluke; with the female, this drawing is much less clear. The head is protected by a tank from bone-plates.
The mud-fish protected its originality above all in the construction of the skull; furthermore, another reduced spiral-tab (as with sharks) is found in the intestine as primitive characteristic.
Way of life Bald-pikes are gluttonous, predominantly at night active robbers, who are feared in some areas of the USA as fishery-pests. With help of its lung-similar swimming-blister, they can breathe air additionally and so also in very oxygen-poor waters can endure.
Reproduction At the spawn-time, in the months May-June, the males build nests, to which they collect the different plant-parts. The nest-construction and this spawn happens at night. This up to 70 000 eggs and later also the hatching young-fish is guarded by the male carefully.
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