Niwaella Nalbant [T. T.] 1963:362 Fem. Cobitis delicata Niwa 1937. Type by original designation. Published as Niwaëlla. •Valid as Niwaella Nalbant 1963 -- (Sawada & Kim 1977 [ref. 6985], Sawada 1982:200 [ref. 14111], Sawada in Masuda et al. 1984:58 [ref. 6441], Nalbant 1994:376 [ref. 22051], Kim & Lee 1995 [ref. 22178], Son & He 2001:4 [ref. 25331], Chen & Chen 2005:1643 [ref. 28174], Kottelat 2012:37 [ref. 32367], Chen et al. 2017:490 [ref. 35645]). •Synonym of Cobitis Linnaeus 1758 -- (Perdices et al. 2016:7 [ref. 34266]). Current status: Synonym of Cobitis Linnaeus 1758. Cobitidae.