银鱼属鲱形目、银鱼科,因形似玉簪、细嫩透明、洁白如银而得名。安徽有4种银鱼:大银鱼、前颌间银鱼、太湖新银鱼及长江银鱼。人们常说的银鱼主要指太湖新银鱼(原称太湖短吻银鱼),体长约70毫米,俗称小银鱼,古称灰残鱼、白小。大银鱼,俗称面鱼,体长约170毫米,古称残鱼。 Silverfish is a herring head, silverfish Branch, due to the shape of Hosta, delicate and transparent, white as silver named. There are 4 species of silverfish in Anhui Province: big whitebait, pre-interrogant whitebait, Taihu new whitebait and Yangtze River whitebait. People often say that the silverfish mainly refers to the Taihu Lake new silver fish (formerly known as the Taihu short-necked whitebait), body length of about 70 mm, commonly known as small whitebait, ancient gray ash fish, white small. Large whitebait, commonly known as fish, body length of about 170 mm, the ancient name of residual fish.