bussei, Gasterosteus Warpachowski [N. A.] in Warpachowski & Herzenstein 1888:13, Pl. (fig. 1) [Trudy St.-Peterburgskogo Obscestva Estestvoispytatelej = Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg. v. 19 (no. 8) (for 1887); ref. 2152] Ilistaya [Lefu] River, tributary to Khanka Lake, Russia. Syntypes: USNM 57470 (1), ZIN 7100 (4, now 3). •Synonym of Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus 1758), subspecies sinensis (Guichenot 1869) -- (Berg 1949:967 [ref. 20662], Okada 1961:621 [ref. 6363], Keivany & Nelson 2000:118 [ref. 24720]). •Synonym of Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot 1869) -- (Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:57 [ref. 22798], Reshetnikov & Savvaitove 1998:112 [ref. 23593]). •Valid as Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski 1888) -- (Bogutskaya et al. 2001:46 [ref. 26178], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:181 [ref. 28183] dated 1887, Takahashi et al. 2016:49 [ref. 34337], Dyldin et al. 2020:114 [ref. 37569], Matsumoto et al. 2021:14 [ref. 38508], Wang et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38800]). Current status: Valid as Pungitius bussei (Warpachowski 1888). Gasterosteidae. Distribution: East Asia: Amur River basin (Russia). Habitat: freshwater.