White Cloud Mountain minnow

Meaning

Noun

A popular aquarium fish, Tanichthys albonubes (species).

Origin

After the White Cloud Mountain in Canton, China. The Latin name is in honour of Tan, a boy scout who first discovered the minnows in the 1950s and brought them to the attention of ichthyologist Lin Shu Yen.

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