kessleri, Nemachilus Günther [A.] 1889:109 [The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second Series. Zoology v. 5 (pt 3) (art. 3); ref. 18207] Nushki, Pishin Lora River basin, Afghanistan [today Pakistan]. Syntypes: (8) BMNH 1886.9.21.177-180 (4), ZSI 11487-90 (now 3). Type information: Talwar 1977:65 [ref. 21523]. Original genus is correctly Nemacheilus. •Valid as Nemacheilus kessleri Günther 1889 -- (Berg 1949:877 [ref. 20661] as Nemachilus, Coad 1981:14 [ref. 22348] as Noemacheilus, Menon 1987:61 [ref. 14149] as Noemacheilus, Talwar & Jhingran 1991:485 [ref. 20764], Coad 1995:22 [ref. 23608], Coad 1996:6 [ref. 23831], Coad 1996:71 [ref. 25297], Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Coad & Abdoli 2000:56 [ref. 25296]). •Valid as Schistura kessleri (Günther 1889) -- (Bănărescu & Nalbant 1995:441 [ref. 23187], Rafique 2000:325 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2003:14 [ref. 27265]). •Valid as Paraschistura kessleri (Günther 1889) -- (Prokofiev 2009:892 [ref. 30604] with subspecies, Esmaeili et al. 2010:373 [ref. 33391], Vatandoust & Eagderi 2015:182 [ref. 33819], Freyhof et al. 2015:12 [ref. 33865], Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi 2015:299 [ref. 34027], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:888 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2015:122 [ref. 35030], Esmaeili et al. 2017:71 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:51 [ref. 36089], Eagderi et al. 2019:266 [ref. 36967], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:198 [ref. 37983], Çiçek et al. 2023:12 [ref. 40326], Çiçek et al. 2024:102 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Paraschistura kessleri (Günther 1889). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: Middle East and South Asia: Mashkid River basin (Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan). Habitat: freshwater.