Yaoshania pachychilus explained

Yaoshania pachychilus, the panda loach, is a species of gastromyzontid loach endemic to mountain streams in Jinxiu County, Guangxi in China.^[1] This species grows to a length of 5.8cm (02.3inches) SL. This species is monotypic, but it was formerly included in Protomyzon.^[2] Juveniles are strikingly coloured in black-and-white, but adults are relatively plain.^[1] Y. pachychilus quickly became a popular aquarium fish in the 2010s.^[3]

Notes and References

1. SeriouslyFish: Yaoshania pachychilus. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
2. Kottelat . Maurice . 2012 . Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei) . dead . The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. No. 26 . 1–199 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160302013050/http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s26/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf . 2016-03-02.
3. 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 . China is initiating the Aquatic 10-100-1,000 Genomics Program . . Chinese Academy of Sciences + National Natural Science Foundation of China (Springer) . 60 . 3 . 2017-01-21 . 1674-7305 . 10.1007/s11427-016-0273-9 . 329–332.