Sabanejewia Vladykov [V. D.] 1929:86 Fem. Cobitis balcanica Karaman 1922. Type by original designation. •Synonym of Cobitis Linnaeus 1758 -- (Chen 1981:23 [ref. 8242], Wu & Wu 1992:265 [ref. 21205]). •Valid as Sabanejewia Vladykov 1929 -- (Nalbant 1963:361 [ref. 3140], Sawada 1982:200 [ref. 14111] as Sabajenewia, Vasil'yeva & Vasil'ev 1988 [ref. 13477], Nalbant 1994:376 [ref. 22051], Economidis & Nalbant 1996:317 [ref. 23723], Vasil'eva 1998:102 [ref. 23591], Nalbant & Bianco 1998:120 [ref. 23810], Ludwig et al. 2001:388 [ref. 25216], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:110 [ref. 28183], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:321 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2012:205 [ref. 31976], Kottelat 2012:41 [ref. 32367], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:882 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:61 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:41 [ref. 36089], Sayyadzadeh et al. 2019:279 [ref. 36752], Çiçek et al. 2022:86 [ref. 39222], Vasil'eva et al. 2022:1 [ref. 39491], Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2023:127 [ref. 40114]). Current status: Valid as Sabanejewia Vladykov 1929. Cobitidae.