Acanthocobitis Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1861:712 Fem. Acanthocobitis longipinnis Peters 1861. Type by monotypy. •Synonym of Noemacheilus Kuhl & van Hasselt in van Hasselt 1823, but a valid subgenus Acanthocobitis -- (Bănărescu & Nalbant 1968:332 [ref. 6554], Jayaram 1981:158 [ref. 6497], Menon 1987:140 [ref. 14149]). •Synonym of Schistura McClelland 1839 -- (Zhu 1989:38 [ref. 17744]). •Valid as Acanthocobitis Peters 1861 -- (Kottelat 1989:12 [ref. 13605], Kottelat 1990:18 [ref. 14137], Bănărescu & Nalbant 1995:432 [ref. 23187], Doi 1997:26 [ref. 22832], Vishwanath & Laisram 2001:199 [ref. 25886], Ataur Rahman 2003:164 [ref. 31338], Grant 2007:1 [ref. 29366], Grant 2008:13 [ref. 33826], Prokofiev 2010:889 [ref. 31096], Kottelat 2012:45 [ref. 31992], Kottelat 2013:198 [ref. 32989], Singer & Page 2015:378, 379 [ref. 33823], Freyhof et al. 2016:75 [ref. 34414], Zhang et al. 2016:127 [ref. 34477], Prokofiev 2017:137 [ref. 35630], Kottelat 2018:295 [ref. 36206], Kottelat & Vishwanath 2021:14 [ref. 38137]). Current status: Valid as Acanthocobitis Peters 1861. Nemacheilidae.