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Cyprinus yilongensis Yang et al., 1977

Yilong carp

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1963-64

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

The lake was drained for 20 days in 1981.

 

Distribution

China

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Specimen_of_Cyprinus_yilongensis%2C_Museum_of_Hydrobiological_Sciences%2C_Wuhan_Institute_of_Hydrobiology.jpg

 

References

Original scientific description:

Yang et al. in: Chen, H.-L. & H.-Q. Huang. (1977). Cyprininae. Pp. 395-438. In: Zhongguo like yulei zhi. (Wu, ed.).


Other references:

Cao, Liang, Zhang ,E., Zang, Chunxin and Cao, Wenxuan. (2016). Evaluating the status of China’s continental fish and analyzing their causes of endangerment through the red list assessment. Biodiv. Sci. 24(5): 598-609. [Abstract]

Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Jiang, C-L. and Xu, L-H. 1996. Diversity of aquatic actinomycetes in Lakes of the Middle Plateau, Yunnan, China. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62(1): 249-253. [relevant reference?]

Wang, S. (editor): 1998 China red data book of endangered animals. Pisces. National Environmental Protection Agency. Endangered Species Scientific Commision. Science Press, Beijing, China. p. 176-177.

Zheng, Z. 1963. Some materials on the growth and the relative fatness of carps from Yilung and Kunming lakes, Yunnan. Acta Zoologica Sinica 15(1): [pagination?]. [relevant citation?]

Zhou, W. (2011a). Cyprinus yilongensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 31 May 2013.

Zhou, W. 2011b. Cyprinus yilongensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T6179A12546193. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T6179A12546193.en. Accessed on 14 June 2022.

 

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