Yunnanilus

Yunnanilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
Subclass: Neopterygii
Infraclass: Teleostei
Superorder: Ostariophysi
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Yunnanilus
Nichols, 1925
Type species
Nemacheilus pleurotaenia
Regan, 1904

Yunnanilus is a genus of stone loaches native to Asia.

Species

There is currently disagreement regarding the exact number of species in this genus. The following list primarily follows Kottelat 2012 with the addition of newly described species.

There are currently 26 recognized species in this genus:[1][2][3]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Yunnanilus in FishBase. August 2013 version.
  2. 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.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Lan, J., Gan. X., Wu. T. & Yang, J. (2013): Cave Fishes of Guangxi, China. Science Press, Beijing. 1-266.
  4. Chen, Z., Yang, J. & Yang, J. (2012): Description of a new species of the genus Yunnanilus Nichols, 1925 (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Yunnan, China. Zootaxa, 3269: 57–64.