rossicus, Discognathus Nikolskii [A. M.] 1900:239 [Ezhegodnik, Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v. 5; ref. 14732] Tedzhen River, Turkmenistan; rivers in eastern Iran. Syntypes: ZIN 10365 [not 10665] (4, now 3), 11113 (6), 11703-05 (6+, 6, 6), 11708 (6). •Valid as Discognathichthys rossicus (Nikolskii 1900) -- (Berg 1949:674 [ref. 20661]). •Valid as Garra rossica (Nikolskii 1900) -- (Coad 1981:10 [ref. 22348], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:431 [ref. 20764], Coad 1995:17 [ref. 23608], Coad 1996:5 [ref. 23831], Coad 1996:71 [ref. 25297], Coad 1998:102 [ref. 23869], Rafique 2000:324 [ref. 25220], Coad & Abdoli 2000:56 [ref. 25296], Mirza 2003:10 [ref. 27265], Esmaeili et al. 2010:369 [ref. 33391], Sayyadzadeh et al. 2015:87 [ref. 34042], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:871 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2015:121 [ref. 35030], Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi 2016:45 [ref. 34341], Esmaeili et al. 2016:105 [ref. 34620], Freyhof 2016:500 [ref. 34805], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2016:141 [ref. 34988], Esmaeili et al. 2017:47 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:27 [ref. 36089], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2019:232 [ref. 36979], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:76 [ref. 37983], Zamani-Faradonbe et al. 2021:385 [ref. 38714], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2022:434 [ref. 39728], Çiçek et al. 2023:18 [ref. 40326], Çiçek et al. 2024:125 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Garra rossica (Nikolskii 1900). Cyprinidae: Labeoninae. Distribution: Middle East and South Asia: Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Habitat: freshwater.