Fish taxonomy and evolution 

Biodiversity conservation

1982-1986: B.S. Department of Freshwater Fishery, Huazhong Agricultural University

1988-1991: M.S., Department of Ichthyology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

1995-1999: Ph.D., Department of Ichthyology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

   

1986-1988: Government Official of Huangshi, Hube Province, China

1991-1992: Research Assistant, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1992-2000: Assistant Professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2001-2010: Associate Professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2011-present: Professor of Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

   

(1)   China's ecosystems: Overlooked species, SCIENCE, 2016 
(2)   Mitochondrial phylogeny of Chinese barred species of the cyprinid genus Acrossocheilus Oshima, 1919 (Teleostei: Cypriniformes)         and its taxonomic implications, Zootaxa, 2015
(3)   Measuring ecosystem degradation through half a century of fish species introductions and extirpations in a large isolated lake,                 Ecological Indicators, 2015
(4)   Vanmanenia maculata, a new species of hillstream loach from the Chang-Jiang Basin, South China (Teleostei: Gastromyzontidae,           Zootaxa, 2014
(5)   Molecular evidence for taxonomic status of the gudgeon genus Huigobio Fang, 1938 (Teleostei: Cypriniformes), with a description         of a new species from Guangdong Province, South China., Zootaxa, 2013
(6)   Liobagrus chenghaiensis, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae) from Yunnan, South China., Ichthyological                   Exploration of Freshwaters, 2013

(7)   Homatula laxiclathra (Teleostei: Balitoridae), a new species of nemacheiline loach from the Yellow River drainage in Shaanxi                 Province, northern China,  Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2012
(8)   Rectoris longibarbus, a new styglophic labeonine species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China, with a note on the taxonomy             of R. mutabilis (Lin, 1933). ,, Zootaxa, 2012

(9)   Sinigarra napoense, a new genus and species of labeonin fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Guangxi Province, South China. ,                 Zootaxa, 2012
(10)  Traccatichthys tuberculum, a new species of nemacheiline loaches from Guangdong Province, South China (Pisces: Balitoridae). ,         Zootaxa, 2012
(11)  Revision of the loach species Barbatula nuda Bleeker, 1865 (Pisces: Balitoridae) from North China, with a description of a new              species from Inner Mongolia. , Zootaxa, 2012
(12)   Acrossocheilus longipinnis, a senior synonym of Acrossocheilus stenotaeniatus Chu and Cui 1989 from the Pearl River basin,                 Zootaxa, 2012
(13)   Microphysogobio nudiventris, a new species of gudgeon (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the middle Chang-Jiang (Yangtze River)                 basin, Hubei Province, South China., Zootaxa, 2012
（14） Cophecheilus bamen, a new genus and species of labeonine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China., Zootaxa, 2011
（15） Type locality and identity of the cyprinid species Acrossocheilus kreyenbergii (Regan, 1908), a senior synonym of Acrossocheilus cinctus (Lin, 1931)., Zootaxa, 2010
（16） Morphological variations in the cyprinid species Acrossocheilus hemispinus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Barbinae), with comments on its taxonomic status., Zootaxa, 2010
（17） Homatula pycnolepis, a new species of nemacheiline loach from the upper Mekong River drainage, South China (Teleostei: Balitoridae)., Ichthyological exploitation of freshwaters, 2010
（18） Onychostoma virgulatum, a new species of cyprinid fish (Pisces: Teleostei) from southern Anhui Province, South China., Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 2009
（19） Pseudobagrus fui Miao, a valid bagrid species from the Yangtze River drainage, South China (Teleostei: Bagridae)., Zootaxa, 2009
（20） Metzia longinasus, a new cyprinid species (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Pearl River drainage in Guangxi Province, South China., Ichthyological Research, 2009
（21） Case 3455. Pseudobagrus Bleeker, 1858 (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes, Bagridae): pro- posed conservation., Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 2008
（22） Revision of the Labeonine Genus Sinocrossocheilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China., Zootaxa, 2008
（23） Triplophysa lixianensis, a new nemacheiline loach species (Pisces: Balitoridae) from the upper Yangtze River drainage in Sichuan Province, South China., Zootaxa, 2008
（24） Description of a New Genus and two New Species of Labeonine Fishes from South China (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)., Zootaxa, 2008
（25） Triplophysa waisihani, a new species of nemacheiline loach from Northwest China (Pisces: Balitoridae)., Ichthyological Research, 2008
（26） Pseudobagrus brachyrhabdion, a new catfish (Teleostei:Bagridae) from the middle Yangtze River drainage, South China., Zootaxa , 2008

My taxonomic interest is species exploration-centered, including the discovery of undescribed species, and the validation of previously described species, with the aim of resolving problems in description, delineation, classification and nomenclature. My systematic work attempts to assess the phylogenetic relationships among species and genera based on morphological and/or molecular data, and reevaluate the validity of species and genera in a phylogenetic context. These taxonomic and systematic studies form the basis for biogeographic questions about the patterns of biotic and geological history involving the groups that are the subject of taxonomic studies, and how these have evolved. My comparative morphological study unveils previously unrecognized taxonomic diversity, on which other biological research are based