orontis, Alburnus Sauvage [H.-E.] 1882:168 [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 6; ref. 14297] Hammah [Hamáh], Syria. Syntypes: MNHN A-3907 (2). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:79 [ref. 19574]. •Valid as Alburnus orontis Sauvage 1882 -- (Coad 1991:23 [ref. 15702], Bogutskaya 1997:167 [ref. 23566], Bogutskaya et al. 2000:62 [ref. 24445], Fricke et al. 2007:31 [ref. 29533], Özuluğ & Freyhof 2008:311 [ref. 29389], Bogutskaya & Coad 2009:170 [ref. 30270], Perea et al. 2010:14 [ref. 31802], Çiçek et al. 2015:146 [ref. 35151], Freyhof et al. 2018:581 [ref. 35814], Freyhof & Turan 2019:380 [ref. 36535], Bayçelebi 2020:756 [ref. 37964], Çiçek et al. 2020:251 [ref. 37644], Çiçek et al. 2023:393 [ref. 40625], Saad et al. 2023:28 [ref. 40501], Çiçek et al. 2024:221 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Alburnus orontis Sauvage 1882. Leuciscidae: Leuciscinae. Distribution: Asia Minor and Middle East: Orontes River basin (Syria and Turkey). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.