Four new records of fish species (Cypriniformes:Nemacheilidae, Balitoridae; Characiformes:Prochilodontidae) and corrections of two misidentified fish species (Tetraodontiformes:Tetraodontidae; Beloniformes:Belonidae) in Yunnan, China
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Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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In this study, six fish species of five families are reported for the
first time from Yunnan Province, China. The nemacheilid Schistura
amplizona Kottelat, 2000 is reported from the Luosuojiang River and
Nanlahe River subbasins, Mekong basin; the prochilodontid Prochilodus
lineatus (Valenciennes, 1837), the balitorid Vanmanenia serrilineata
Kottelat, 2000, and the tetraodontid Monotrete turgidus Kottelat,
2000, from Nanlahe River subbasin, Mekong basin; the balitorid
Beaufortia daon (Mai, 1978), and the belonid Xenentodon canciloides
(Bleeker, 1854), both, from Black River subbasin, Red River basin. The
freshwater puffer M. turgidus and the needlefish X. canciloides have
been previously misidentified as Tetraodon leiurus (Bleeker, 1950)
and Tylosurus strongylurus (van Hasselt, 1823), respectively.
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New record; Misidentification; Mekong basin; Red River; Yunnan
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