Yaoshania pachychilus
Yaoshania pachychilus, the panda loach, is a species of gastromyzontid loach endemic to mountain streams in Jinxiu County, Guangxi in China.[2] This species grows to a length of 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in) SL. This species is monotypic,[3] but it was formerly included in Protomyzon.[4] Juveniles are strikingly coloured in black-and-white, but adults are relatively plain.[2]
| Yaoshania pachychilus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Gastromyzontidae |
| Genus: | Yaoshania Jian Yang, Kottelat, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2012[1] |
| Species: | Y. pachychilus |
| Binomial name | |
| Yaoshania pachychilus (Yi-Yu Chen, 1980) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Protomyzon pachychilus Yi-Yu Chen, 1980 | |
References
- Yang, J., Kottelat, M., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): Yaoshania and Erromyzon kalotaenia, a new genus and a new species of balitorid loaches from Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Zootaxa, 3586: 173–186.
- SeriouslyFish: Yaoshania pachychilus. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Protomyzon pachychilus" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
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