Yunnanilus obtusirostris
| Yunnanilus obtusirostris | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Yunnanilus |
| Species: | Y. obtusirostris
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| Binomial name | |
| Yunnanilus obtusirostris J. X. Yang, 1995[1]
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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.[2] It mau be a species in the genus Heminoemacheilus rather than Yunnanilus.[2] The specific name is a compound of the Latin rostrum meaning a "beak" and obtusus meaning "blunt", this refers to the species' short snout.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Yunnanilus obtusirostris" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "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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