Cyprinidae

Anabarilius qiluensis

Anabarilius qiluensis

Unseen since the nineteen eighties

• White
• Tropical
• Restricted distribution
• Freshwater fish
• East Asia
• Small
• Tropical fish

Anabarilius qiluensis is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. This species is endemic to Qilu Lake in Yunnan, but it has not been recorded from that site since the early 1980s. Surveys conducted in 1983-84 failed to find this fish.