Nemacheilidae

Yunnanilus sichuanensis

Yunnanilus sichuanensis

Flattened snout high caudal peduncle

• Temperate
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• East Asia
• Elongated
• Small
• Temperate fish

Yunnanilus sichuanensis is a species of ray-finned fish, a stone loach, in the genus Yunnanilus. It is endemic to Sichuan in China where the type locality is the Shuyalong Jiang River in the drainage of the Anning River in Mianning County. The body is long and flattened, the caudal peduncle is short and high, the head is flattened and the snout is blunt, and the eyes are large and located above the middle of the head.