Eonemachilus obtusirostris

Eonemachilus obtusirostris
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Eonemachilus
Species:	E. obtusirostris
Binomial name
Eonemachilus obtusirostris J. X. Yang, 1995 [2]
Synonyms [3]
Yunnanilus obtusirostrisJ. X. Yang, 1995

Eonemachilus obtusirostris is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach in the genus Eonemachilus . Its type locality is the West Dragon Spring, which flows into Fuxian Lake in Chengjiang County, Yunnan. ^[3] In the past this species was classified in the genus Yunnanilus , although it was thought that it may have been in Heminoemacheilus rather than Yunnanilus. ^[4] The specific name is a compound of the Latin rostrum meaning a "beak" and obtusus meaning "blunt", this refers to the species' short snout. ^[5]

References

1. Cao, L. (2024). "Yunnanilus obtusirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2024 e.T212910668A212910670. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Yunnanilus obtusirostris". FishBase . October 2017 version.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Eonemachilus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 4 December 2024.
4. 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.
5. "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2018.