Silurus lanzhouensis, the Lanzhou catfish, is a species of catfish found in Asia in the upper Yellow River, China.[1]
Silurus lanzhouensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Siluridae |
Genus: | Silurus |
Species: | S. lanzhouensis
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Binomial name | |
Silurus lanzhouensis H. L. Chen, 1977
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Description
editThis species reaches a length of 100.0 cm (39.4 in).[2]
Etymology
editThe fish is named in honor of the city of Lanzhou (also spelled Lanchow), in the Gansu Province, China, a city on the Yellow River, where the type specimen was found.[3]
References
edit- ^ Kobayakawa, M., 1989. Systematic revision of the catfish genus Silurus, with description of a new species from Thailand and Burma. Jap. J. Ichthyol. 36(2):155-186.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Silurus lanzhouensis". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families SILURIDAE, KRYPTOGLANIDAE, AUSTROGLANIDIDAE, PANGASIIDAE, CHACIDAE and PLOTOSIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 20 December 2023.