Acheilognathus Bleeker [P.] 1859:259 Masc. Acheilognathus melanogaster Bleeker 1860. Type by subsequent designation. Also appeared in Bleeker 1860:427 [ref. 370] without including species. Species added by Bleeker 1860:92 [ref. 374]. See Kottelat 2013: 69 [ref. 32989] for a new interpretation and change in type, and type designation by Bleeker 1863:213 [ref. 397]. See Kottelat 2000:198 et seq. [ref. 24524] for an earlier discussion of the type species. Achilognathus Günther 1868:276 [ref. 1990] is an unjustified emendation. •Synonym of Acanthorhodeus Bleeker 1871 -- (Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:40 [ref. 28183]). •Valid as Acheilognathus Bleeker 1859 -- (Wu 1964:207 [ref. 13503], Sawada in Masuda et al. 1984:54 [ref. 6441], Arai & Akai 1988 [ref. 6999], Chen & Li in Chu & Chen 1989:128 [ref. 13584], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:130 [ref. 23876], Doi 1997:2 [ref. 22832], Chen in Chen 1998:129 [ref. 23556], Lin in Chen et al. 1998:416 [ref. 23878], Doi et al. 1999:303 [ref. 24230], Naseka & Bogutskaya 2004:280 [ref. 27838], Arai et al. 2007:1 [ref. 29106], Yang et al. 2010:333 [ref. 30786], Li & Arai 2010:303 [ref. 31188], Yang et al. 2011:158 [ref. 31154], Kottelat 2013:69 [ref. 32989], Li & Arai 2014:165 [ref. 33267], Parin et al. 2014:66 [ref. 33547], Zhang et al. 2016:66 [ref. 34477]). Current status: Valid as Acheilognathus Bleeker 1859. Acheilognathidae.