English Explanatory Dictionary

White Cloud Mountain minnow

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A popular aquarium fish, Tanichthys albonubes.

Word forms

White Cloud Mountain minnow White Cloud Mountain minnows

Etymology

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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