Yunnanilus niger

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

Yunnanilus niger is a hypogean 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, [3]

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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. Kottelat, M. (1996). "Yunnanilus niger". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T23177A9425520. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T23177A9425520.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Yunnanilus niger" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  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.