Biology:Yunnanilus obtusirostris
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Short description: Species of fish
| 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
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Yunnanilus obtusirostris" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 26: 1–199. https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/06/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf.
- ↑ "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. http://www.etyfish.org/loaches3/.
Wikidata ☰ Q3759278 entry
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