Nemachilichthys Day [F.] 1878:611 Masc. Cobitis rueppelli Sykes 1839. Type by monotypy. •Synonym of Noemacheilus Kuhl & van Hasselt 1823, but a valid subgenus Nemachilichthys -- (Jayaram 1981:150 [ref. 6497], Menon 1987:158 [ref. 14149] as Noemacheilichthys). •Synonym of Schistura McClelland 1839 -- (Zhu 1989:38 [ref. 17744]). •Valid as Nemachilichthys Day 1878 -- (Kottelat 1990:20 [ref. 14137], Bănărescu & Nalbant 1995:447 [ref. 23187], Prokofiev 2010:889 [ref. 31096], Kottelat 2012:93 [ref. 32367], Keskar et al. 2015:555 [ref. 34106], Prokofiev 2017:137 [ref. 35630]). Current status: Valid as Nemachilichthys Day 1878. Nemacheilidae.