Yunnanilus macrolepis

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Yunnanilus macrolepis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Yunnanilus
Species:
Y. macrolepis
Binomial name
Yunnanilus macrolepis

Yunnanilus macrolepis is a species of stone loach which is endemic to China. [2] Its type locality is Luoping County in Yunnan. Some authorities consider Y. macrolepis to be a junior synonym of Yunnanilus paludosus . [3]

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Yunnanilus analis is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. The type locality is Xingyun Lake in Yunnan, southern China. The specific name analis means "of the anus" and refers to the six branched rays in the anal fin, a unique feature among the species classified under Yunnanilus.

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. The type locality for this species is Fuxian Lake at Haikou, Hainan in China.

Yunnanilus discoloris is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. It is currently only in a single spring in the drainage basin of Lake Dianchi in Yunnan.

Yunnanilus elakatis is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. Its type locality is in Yiliang County, Kunming in Yunnan. The specific name refers the spindle-like body shape.

Yunnanilus forkicaudalis is a species of stone loach which is endemic to China. Its type locality is Lunan County, Heilongtan in Yunnan. Some authorities consider Y. forkicaudalis to be a junior synonym of Yunnanilus macrositanus.

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 macrositanus is a species of stone loach endemic to China. The specific name is spelled macroistainus in Fishbase but as first reviser Maurice Kottelat chose to use macrositanus and this has been followed by the Catalog of Fishes. The type locality of this species is in Lunan County, Heilongtan, Yunnan.

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 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 macrolepis" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  2. Li, W. X., Tao, J. N., Mao, W. N. & Lu, Z. M. (2000) Two new species of Yunnanilus from eastern Yunnan, China (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 25 (3), 349 - 353. (In Chinese with English summary)
  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.