Yaoshania pachychilus

Yaoshania pachychilus
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Gastromyzontidae
Genus: Yaoshania
Jian Yang, Kottelat, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2012[1]
Species: Y. pachychilus
Binomial name
Yaoshania pachychilus
(Yi-Yu Chen, 1980)
Synonyms

Protomyzon pachychilus Yi-Yu Chen, 1980

Yaoshania pachychilus, the panda loach, is a species of gastromyzontid loach endemic to mountain streams in Jinxiu County, Guangxi in China.[2] This species grows to a length of 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in) SL. This species is the only known member of its genus,[3] but it was formerly included in Protomyzon.[4] Juveniles are strikingly coloured in black-and-white, but adults are relatively plain.[2]

References

  1. Yang, J., Kottelat, M., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. (2012): Yaoshania and Erromyzon kalotaenia, a new genus and a new species of balitorid loaches from Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Zootaxa, 3586: 173–186.
  2. 1 2 SeriouslyFish: Yaoshania pachychilus. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Protomyzon pachychilus" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
  4. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
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