Yaoshania
| Yaoshania | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| Yaoshania pachychilus (Yi-Yu Chen, 1980)
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| Synonyms | |
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Protomyzon pachychilus Yi-Yu Chen, 1980 | |
Yaoshina is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gastromyzontidae, commonly called the hillstream loaches, although this also refers to the loaches in the family Balitoridae. The only species in the genus is Yaoshania pachychilus, the panda loach.[2] A loach which is endemic to mountain streams in Jinxiu County, Guangxi in China.[3] This species grows to a length of 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in) SL. This species is monotypic,[4] but it was formerly included in Protomyzon.[5] Juveniles are strikingly coloured in black-and-white, but adults are relatively plain.[3] Y. pachychilus quickly became a popular aquarium fish in the 2010s.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Gastromyzontidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- ^ a b SeriouslyFish: Yaoshania pachychilus. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Yaoshania pachychilus". FishBase. October 2024 version.
- ^ Kottelat, Maurice (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (Suppl. No. 26): 1–199. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-02.
- ^ Liu, Yingjie; Xu, Pao; Xu, Junmin; Huang, Yu; Liu, Yongxin; Fang, Hui; Hu, Yinchang; You, Xinxin; Bian, Chao; Sun, Min; Gu, Ruobo; Cui, Lifeng; Zhang, Xianliang; Xu, Peng; Shi, Qiong (2017-01-21). "China is initiating the Aquatic 10-100-1,000 Genomics Program". Science China Life Sciences. 60 (3). Chinese Academy of Sciences + National Natural Science Foundation of China (Springer): 329–332. doi:10.1007/s11427-016-0273-9. ISSN 1674-7305.
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