amblycephala, Megalobrama Yih [P.-L.] 1955:116, Figs. 1 (2, 4), 2 (6, 8); Pl. 1 [Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica v. 1 (no. 2); ref. 20566] Lake Liang-Tze, Hupei, China. Syntypes: KIZ (11) from Lu-Jiang hatchery, L. Xing-Yün. •Valid as Megalobrama amblycephala Yih 1955 -- (Yih & Wu 1964:94 [ref. 13499], Bănărescu 1970:138 [ref. 20609], Wang 1984:53 [ref. 22951], Chen in Chu & Chen 1989:88 [ref. 13584], Luo 1990:164 [ref. 20057], Lu in Pan et al. 1991:100 [ref. 23876], Zhu 1995:42 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:126 [ref. 26385], Luo & Chen in Chen et al. 1998:205 [ref. 23878], Cai et al. 2001:632 [ref. 25721] as amblucephala, Tang et al. 2001:12 [ref. 25373], Wang et al. 2001:106 [ref. 26566] with author as Yin [sic], Vasil'eva & Makeeva 2003:615 [ref. 27334], Takeuchi & Hosoya 2011:15 [ref. 31144], Zhang et al. 2016:61 [ref. 34477], Zhang et al. 2019:192 [ref. 36699], Chen et al. 2020:[4] 4002 [ref. 38581], Dyldin et al. 2020:98 [ref. 37569], Guo 2021:173 [ref. 38617], Dyldin et al. 2023:[15] [ref. 40328], Fricke et al. 2024:163 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Megalobrama amblycephala Yih 1955. Xenocyprididae. Distribution: East Asia: Yangtze River basin (China). Introduced in Russia and Mexico. IUCN (2011): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater.