strumicae, Cobitis taenia Karaman [S. L.] 1955:190, fig. 4 [Acta Musei Macedonici Scientiarum Naturalium v. 3 (no. 7); ref. 12279] Monospitovo swamp and Strumica River, Yugoslavia. Syntypes: MMNHS (lost). •Synonym of Cobitis taenia Linnaeus 1758, but a valid subspecies as described -- (Lelek 1987:247 [ref. 22962]). •Valid as Cobitis strumicae Karaman 1955 -- (Economidis & Nalbant 1996:306 [ref. 23723], Kottelat 1997:88 [ref. 22952], Erk'akan et al. 1999:25 [ref. 25143], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:172 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:49 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:314 [ref. 29996], Kottelat 2012:29 [ref. 32367], Barbieri et al. 2015:73 [ref. 35029], Çiçek et al. 2015:148 [ref. 35151], Eagderi et al. 2017:50 [ref. 35199], Erk'akan et al. 2017:88 [ref. 35341], Freyhof et al. 2018:35 [ref. 36385], Özuluğ & Saç 2019:25 [ref. 36599], Çiçek et al. 2020:244 [ref. 37644], Çiçek et al. 2023:339 [ref. 40625], Ozpicak et al. 2023:[4] [ref. 40117], Çiçek et al. 2024:57 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Cobitis strumicae Karaman 1955. Cobitidae. Distribution: Eurasia: Aegean and Black Sea basins (Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey). Habitat: freshwater.