Author Contributions
Dong Liu wrote the manuscript; Xinyang Wang collected the samples, performed Illunima sequencing, and estimated the genome size; Hongyi Guo took a picture of the fish, determined annuli on otolith, and assembled the genome; Wenqiao Tang designed the projects of this study and performed Nanopore sequencing, and transcript sequencing; Ming Zhang performed the bioinformatic analyses and assessed the assembly quality. Xuguang Zhang carried out the genome annotation and functional gene analysis. All authors read, edited, and approved the final manuscript.