Rhodeus Agassiz [L.] 1832:134 [ref. 5111]. Masc. Cyprinus amarus Bloch 1782. Type by monotypy. Also in Agassiz 1835:37 [ref. 22]. Cyprinus amarus and two fossil species were mentioned in Agassiz 1832, but the fossil species were as name only; type is amarus by monotypy (only one available species included). •Valid as Rhodeus Agassiz 1832 -- (Wu 1964:200 [ref. 13503], Sawada in Masuda et al. 1984:55 [ref. 6441], Arai & Akai 1988:209 [ref. 6999], Chen & Li in Chu & Chen 1989:124 [ref. 13584], Kottelat 1989:11 [ref. 13605], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:124 [ref. 23876], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:32 [ref. 22798], Doi 1997:24 [ref. 22832], Lin in Chen et al. 1998:444 [ref. 23878], Holcík 1999:1 [ref. 24847], Hänfling & Brandl 2000:267 [ref. 25144], Arai et al. 2001:275 [ref. 25545], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:43 [ref. 28183], Chen et al. 2005:90 [ref. 28516], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:82 [ref. 29996], Yang et al. 2010:333 [ref. 30786], Li & Arai 2010:303 [ref. 31188]). Current status: Valid as Rhodeus Agassiz 1832. Cyprinidae: Acheilognathinae.