The big-scaled redfin (Pseudaspius hakonensis), also known as the Japanese dace and ugui (鯎 or 鵜喰), is a medium-sized Asian species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, chubs, true minnows and related fishes. First described by Albert Günther in 1877 as Leuciscus hakonensis, it was the type specimen of the genus Tribolodon, having been described again as Tribolodon punctatum by Henri Émile Sauvage when he established that genus in 1883. It is the most widely distributed of the Pseudaspius species, found over much of the Sea of Japan.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Japanese Dace being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Mylocheilus caurinus
- Ptychocheilus grandis
- Mylopharodon conocephalus
- Prosopium williamsoni
- Ptychocheilus oregonensis
- Prosopium cylindraceum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Leuciscidae
- Genus
- Pseudaspius
- Species
- Pseudaspius hakonensis
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