turcomanus, Nemacheilus kessleri Nikolskii [G. V.] 1947:32, Fig. 3 [Bulletin de la Société impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. Section Biologique (n. s.) v. 52 (no. 3); ref. 12096] Kushka River near town of Kushka, Murgab River basin, Turkmenistan. Syntypes: ZMMU P-5734 (3), P-5735 (1). Type catalog: Vasil'eva et al. 2001:27 [ref. 25714]. •Synonym of Nemacheilus kessleri Günther 1889; probably a valid subspecies of Noemacheilus kessleri -- (see Coad 1981:14 [ref. 22348], Menon 1987:63 [ref. 14149] as Noemacheilus). •Synonym of Schistura kessleri (Günther 1889) -- (authors). •Synonym of Paraschistura turcmenica (Nikolskii 1947) -- (Freyhof et al. 2015:1 [ref. 33865], Esmaeili et al. 2017:72 [ref. 35254]). •Valid as Paraschistura turcomana (Nikolskii 1947) -- (Kottelat 2012:102 [ref. 32367], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2015:3 [ref. 34063], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:204 [ref. 37983], Çiçek et al. 2023:14 [ref. 40326], Çiçek et al. 2024:104 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Paraschistura turcomana (Nikolskii 1947). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: Middle East, northern-central Asia and South Asia: eastern Hari River basin, Murghab drainage (Iran, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan). Habitat: freshwater.