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| The Zhongdian Heavy-Lip Fish, Ptychobarbus chungtienensis (Tsao 1964) is endemic to the Yunnan Plateau. Historically it has been found in the little Zhong Dian River, Naya River, and the Bita Sea, all of which are in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and part of the Qinghai Tibetan plateau. In response to declining wild populations and increasing risk factors, the government recently rel... more |
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Yang Jian and researchers at the Kunming Institute of Zoology’s (KIZ) Phylogeny and Biogeography Research Group recently discovered two previously undocumented Schizothorax species in the Irrawaddy River system that have been named Schizothorax leukus sp. nov., for its white body, and Singular Schizothorax (Schizothorax heteri sp. nov.).
The white body Schizothorax has the following typica... more |
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Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have discovered a peptide in the venom of the Chinese red-headed centipede, Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans, with the potential to be developed into a pain drug as effective as morphine.
(Chinese red-headed centipedes, Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans. Image credit: Department of Biology, the University of New Mexi... more |
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The Irrawaddy River, also names Ayeyarwady River, is a river that flows throughout South-Eastern Asia. The Irrawaddy drainage area in China is originating from Tibet and is consisted of three branches, the Dulongjiang River, Dayingjiang River and Longchuanjiang River.
The Irrawaddy River is home to a large diversity of animals, including about 43 fish species. Based on the previous research... more |
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（Image by Song Li)
The giant flying squirrels (Petaurista) belong to the subfamily Sciurinae and are distributed from Pakistan and Nepal to East Asia, North Indochina and Southeast Asia. They are nocturnal small mammals primarily feed on fruits, flowers and branches, occasionally on eggs and insects. Attribute to the skin membrane between its legs, it could glide for rather long dista... more |
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