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Gold red and white Lionhead goldfish. The tremendous hood or headgrowth and fat cheeks of lionheads give them a facial appearance similar to canine puppies. [2] The "wen" (Chinese term for headgrowth) fully covers the head, cheeks and gill plates of the fish.
Lionhead may refer to Lionhead (goldfish), a variety of goldfish; Lionhead cichlid (Steatocranus casuarius), a fish; Lionhead rabbit, a breed of domestic rabbit; Lionhead Studios, a computer game development company; Lion Head (Alaska), a mountain in Alaska; Lionhead Unit, a campground at Priest Lake in Northern Idaho; The head of a lion
The Western criteria for lionchus combine the traditional characteristic side-view profiles of the ranchu and the lionhead. [3] The ranchu's deep body, broad and curved back, and tail placement has been merged with the large headgrowth of the lionhead. Lionchus do not have dorsal fins, a trait inherited from both parent breeds. [1] [2]
When it was first imported from China to Japan it was mistakenly thought to be native to the Netherlands, and was therefore dubbed the "Holland Lionmask", "Dutch Lionhead", and "Netherlands Lion Head" (Japanese: オランダ獅子頭, romanized: oranda shishigashira), from which its English name "oranda" derives. [citation needed]
The Lionchu or lionhead-ranchu is a goldfish that has resulted from crossbreeding lionheads and ranchus. [39] [40] The egg-fish goldfish is a goldfish that lacks a dorsal fin and has a pronounced egg-shaped body. [41] [42] The Shukin is a Ranchu-like goldfish developed from Ranchus and Orandas at the end of the 19th century in Japan. Curled ...
Pterois was described as a genus in 1817 by German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist Lorenz Oken.In 1856 the French naturalist Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest designated Scorpaena volitans, which had been named by Bloch in 1787 and which was the same as Linnaeus's 1758 Gasterosteus volitans, as the type species of the genus.
The fish in this genus all have relatively reduced swim bladder function. The name Steatocranus refers to the fatty deposit on the forehead of most species. Young female Steatocranus casuarius. Two species, S. casuarius (also known as the lionhead or buffalohead cichlid) and S. tinanti are relatively common in the aquarium trade.
Perhaps 700 years ago, egg goldfish were first bred for their lack of a dorsal fin. Prior to the 17th century, lionhead goldfish with this trait were kept in China and Japan, and the ranchū breed was derived from them. A dorsal fin is found on all normal fish. This fin keeps the fish stable in the water and keeps them from rolling.