The types of fishes in Yunnan ranks first in China with the total species of 620 by 2013, issued by Kunming Institute of Zoology in Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Chen Xiaoyong(陈小勇), the issuer, is an associate research fellow of the institute. He published a list of species of fishes living in Yunnan recently.
Based on the list, Yunnan has altogether 13 orders, 42 families, 198 genera and 620 species of fish on record. The amount of fish species in Yunnan accounts for 39.17% of China's freshwater fish species (1,583 species), and is in the first places in China. Among the fish species in Yunnan, 586 of them are indigenous and 34 species are exotic. Endemic are 254 kind of fishes in the province.
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