Yunnanilus chui

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Yunnanilus chui
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Yunnanilus
Species:
Y. chui
Binomial name
Yunnanilus chui
J. X. Yang, 1991 [1]

Yunnanilus chui is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus . The specific name honours the ichthyologist Chu Xin-Luo. [2] The type locality for this species is Fuxian Lake at Haikou, Hainan in China. [3]

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Yunnanilus jinxiensis is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach in the genus Yunnanilus. It is found in the Pearl River drainage in Guangxi and its type locality is Ludon village in Jingxi County, its specific name refers to Jingxi County.

Yunnanilus longibulla is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. The type locality for this species is Chenghai Lake in Yunnan. The specific name longibulla means "long bubble" and refers to the elongated shape of the swim bladder compared to closely related species.

Yunnanilus macrolepis is a species of stone loach which is endemic to China. Its type locality is Luoping County in Yunnan. Some authorities consider Y. macrolepis to be a junior synonym of Yunnanilus paludosus.

Yunnanilus nanpanjiangensis is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. It is endemic to China and uts type locality is near Agang Town, Luoping County, Yunnan and the specific name refers to the Nanpanjiang River.

Yunnanilus obtusirostris is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach in the genus Yunnanilus. Its type locality is the West Dragon Spring, which flows into Fuxian Lake in Chengjiang County, Yunnan. It mau be a species in the genus Heminoemacheilus rather than Yunnanilus. The specific name is a compound of the Latin rostrum meaning a "beak" and obtusus meaning "blunt", this refers to the species' short snout.

Yunnanilus paludosus is a species of stone loach endemic to China. This species is endemic to the endorheic drainage system which feeds the Datangzi Marsh in Luoping County, Yunnan, The specific name paludosus means "marshy", referring to the habitat of the type locality, Datangzi Marsh.

Yunnanilus pulcherrimus is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. It is found in the Hongshuihe River, part of the Xijiang River basin in China, with the type locality in Du'an County, Guangxi. The specific name pulcherrimus means most beautiful and is a reference to the “unique” banded color pattern ofthin vertical stripes crossing a wide lateral band, when compared to related species.

Yunnanilus sichuanensis is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. It is endemic to Sichuan in China where the type locality is the Shuyalong Jiang River in the drainage of the Anning River in Mianning County.

Yunnanilus tigerivinus is a species of stone loach which is endemic to China. Its type locality is an opening of an underground channel in a suburb of Kunming in Yunnan. Some authorities consider Y. tigerivinus to be a junior synonym of Yunnanilus pleurotaenia .

Yunnanilus ganheensis is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a stone loach in the genus Yunnanilus. The type locality is Ganhe in Xundan County in Yunnan and the specific name refers to that location.

Yunnanilus bailianensis is a troglobitic species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a stone loach from the genus Yunnanilus. Its type locality is disputed with some authorities stating it is the Heilongtan Reservoir in Shilin County, Yunnan the reservoir is in the drainage system of the Ba Jiang, from which the species' specific name may derive, although other authorities give the type location and the specific name derivation as Bailian Cave near Liuzhou in Guangxi Province.

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

Yunnanilus spanisbripes is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. The type locality of this species is the Niulanjiang River in Zhanyi County in Yunnan.

Yunnanilus yangzonghaiensis is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. It is endemic to China and its type locality is Yangzong Lake in Yunnan. This species has been placed in the genus Eonemachilus.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Yunnanilus chui" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  2. "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  3. 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.