longicauda, Cobitis Kessler [K. F.] 1872:65 [21], Pl. 11 (figs. 30-31) [Izvestiia Imperatorskago Obschchestva Liubitelei Estestvozaniia, Antropologii i Etnografii v. 10 (no. 1); ref. 14134] Ak-Darya River, Uzbekistan. Holotype (unique): ZISP 2628. Type catalog: Svetovidova 1978:262 [ref. 9011] but ZISP 2686 is not the holotype. On p. 21 of separate. Genus name misprinted Cobitls for Cobitis. •Synonym of Nemacheilus malapterurus (Valenciennes 1846), but a valid subspecies -- (Starostin 1945:135 bis [ref. 40406], Berg 1949:884 [ref. 20661] as Nemachilus, see Coad 1981:14 [ref. 22348]). •Valid as Nemacheilus longicaudus (Kessler 1872) -- (Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Coad & Abdoli 2000:56 [ref. 25296]). •May be a subspecies or synonym of Nemacheilus malapterus (Valenciennes 1846) -- (Coad 1995:22 [ref. 23608]). •Valid as Paracobitis longicauda (Kessler 1872) -- (Bănărescu & Nalbant 1995:443 [ref. 23187], Prokofiev 2009:888 [ref. 30604], Esmaeili et al. 2010:372 [ref. 33391], Freyhof et al. 2014:16 [ref. 33505], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2015:340 [ref. 33744], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:885 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:69 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:48 [ref. 36089], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:182 [ref. 37983], Sheraliev & Kayumova 2022:36 [ref. 39437], Çiçek et al. 2023:10 [ref. 40326], Sheraliev 2023:98 [ref. 40637]). Current status: Valid as Paracobitis longicauda (Kessler 1872). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: Middle East and northern-central Asia: Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Hari River drainage (Iran) and adjacent areas. Habitat: freshwater.