bleekeri, Hemiculter Warpachowski [N. A.] 1888:20 [Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg (Series 3) v. 32; ref. 4516] Chang Jiang [Yangtze River] ?, China. No types at ZIN. •Valid as Hemiculter bleekeri Warpachowski 1887, subspecies bleekeri (Warpachowski 1887) -- (Cheng & Zhou 1997:117 [ref. 26385]). •Synonym of Hemiculter lucidus (Dybowski 1872) -- (Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:58 [ref. 28183], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:320 [ref. 30085] with question). •Valid as Hemiculter bleekeri Warpachowski 1888 -- (Yih & Wu 1964:87 [ref. 13499], Bănărescu 1971:11 [ref. 20612], Wang 1984:49 [ref. 22951], Ding 1994:219 [ref. 21531], Zhu 1995:39 [ref. 25213], Luo & Chen in Chen et al. 1998:167 [ref. 23878], Tang et al. 2001:12 [ref. 25373], Wang et al. 2001:95 [ref. 26566], Zhang et al. 2016:60 [ref. 34477], Guo 2021:140 [ref. 38617] dated 1887, Vasil'eva et al. 2022:8 [ref. 38982], Vasil'eva et al. 2022:260 [ref. 39203], Chan et al. 2023:137 [ref. 40365]). Current status: Valid as Hemiculter bleekeri Warpachowski 1888. Xenocyprididae. Distribution: East Asia: Yangtze River basin (China). Introduced iin Hong Kong (China). Habitat: freshwater.