''Sinilabeo cirrhinoides'' is a species of

cyprinid Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest ve ...

of the genus ''

Sinilabeo ''Sinilabeo'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in China and Vietnam. Species According to FishBase, there are currently six recognized species in this genus. Only two of these (marked with a star* in list) are recognized in this ge ...

''. It inhabits the

Mekong river The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth longest river and the third longest in Asia. Its estimated length is , and it drains an area of , discharging of water annual ...

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 ...

, China. It has a maximum length of among unsexed males and is considered harmless to humans. It has not been evaluated on the

IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biol ...

References

{{Cyprinidae-stub Cyprinid fish of Asia Freshwater fish of China Taxa named by Wu Hsien-Wen Taxa named by Lin Ren-Duan Fish described in 1977