Yunnanilus niulanensis

Yunnanilus niulanensis is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish,[1] a stone loach from the genus Yunnanilus. Its type locality is the Yanglinhe River in Songming County in Yunnan.[2] The specific name refers to the Niulanjiang River, in the Yangtze basin, of which the Yanglinhe is a tributary.[3]

Yunnanilus niulanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Yunnanilus
Species:
Y. niulanensis
Binomial name
Yunnanilus niulanensis
Z. M. Chen, J. Yang & J. X. Yang, 2012[1]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Yunnanilus niulanensis" in FishBase. October 2006 version.
  2. Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 26: 1–199.
  3. "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2018.


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