A New Record on Species of Yasuhikotakia Nalbant, 2002 (Teleostei Botiidae) to China

One specimen of Botiidae was collected in lower Lancang River, Mekong Basin in 2016. Further identification confirmed that this specimen is Yasuhikotakia caudipunctata, which is a new fish record to China. The specimen matches well diagnoses of Y. caudipunctata based on its original description (Taki & Doi, 1995): body compressed, lower lip interrupted at symphysis, with a pair of mental lobes medially; mental lobes moderately large, each lobe with a pair of small, fleshy papillae on frontal edge; 8 branched dorsal fin rays. brownish, saddle-shaped bands on the body behind the dorsal fin, a large, blurred, brownish, blotch on the caudal peduncle. Caudal fin with numerous, small, dark brownish spots. The specimen was deposited in the Yunnan Academy of Fishery Sciences.