| Yaoshania pachychilus | |
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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 | |
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 monotypic,[3] but it was formerly included in Protomyzon.[4] Juveniles are strikingly coloured in black-and-white, but adults are relatively plain.[2] Y. pachychilus quickly became a popular aquarium fish in the 2010s.[5]
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b SeriouslyFish: Yaoshania pachychilus. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Protomyzon pachychilus". FishBase. December 2012 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.