Yunnanilus elakatis

Yunnanilus elakatis is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. Its type locality is in Yiliang County, Kunming in Yunnan.[2] The specific name refers the spindle-like body shape.[3]

Yunnanilus elakatis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Yunnanilus
Species:
Y. elakatis
Binomial name
Yunnanilus elakatis
W. X. Cao & S. Q. Zhu, 1989[1]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Yunnanilus elakatis" in FishBase. October 2017 version.
  2. 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.
  3. "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (Stone Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2018.


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