''Balitora lancangjiangensis'' is a species of hill-stream loach from the

Mekong The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's List of rivers by length, twelfth longest river and List of longest rivers of Asia, the third longest in Asia. Its estimated length is , ...

and Red River basins. Sources differ in distribution, but all list

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...

(China) and

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

, and at least the

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also lists Vietnam, Burma, and Thailand. ''Balitora vanlongi'' might be

junior synonym The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...

of ''Balitora lancangjiangensis''. ''Balitora lancangjiangensis'' grow to SL. It occurs in fast flowing stretches of waters in rivers and large streams.

References

L Fish of the Mekong Basin Fish of Myanmar Freshwater fish of China Fish of Laos Fish of Thailand Fish of Vietnam Fish described in 1980 {{Balitoridae-stub