''Liobagrus kingi'', the King's bullhead, is a species of
catfish
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in the family
Amblycipitidae (the torrent catfishes)
endemic
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to
China, where it is known to occur in the lake
Dianchi basin, in its tributaries and effluent river, the Zhangjiu, and two tributaries of the
Jinshajiang (upper
Yangtze
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) river in
Sichuan
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and
Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in 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 Kunming. The province borders the C ...
.
It has not been recorded in the lake since the 1960s.
[Wang, Wang, Li, Du, Yang, Lassoie, and Hassan (2013). ''Six decades of changes in vascular hydrophyte and fish species in three plateau lakes in Yunnan, China.'' Biodivers Conserv 22: 3197–3221. doi: 10.1007/s10531-013-0579-0] This species grows to a length of
SL.
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Liobagrus
Endemic fauna of China
Freshwater fish of China
Taxa named by Tchang Tchung-Lin
Fish described in 1935
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