bulgarica, Gobio gobio Drensky [P.] 1926:131, Fig. 2 [Trudove na Bulgarskogo Prirodoizpitatelno Druzhestvo = Travaux de la Société Bulgare des Sciences Naturelles v. 12; ref. 15583] Maritsa, Bulgaria. Syntypes: NMNHS. •Synonym of Gobio gobio (Linnaeus 1758), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Lelek 1987:190 [ref. 22962]). •Synonym of Gobio gobio (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 1997:61 [ref. 22952], Bănărescu et al. 1999:82 [ref. 24850]). •See Naseka et al. 2006:189 [ref. 28984]. •See Mendel et al. 2008:1071 [ref. 29637]. •Valid as Gobio bulgaricus Drensky 1926 -- (Vasil'eva et al. 2005:778 [ref. 28515], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:90 [ref. 29996], Kottelat & Freyhof 2009:79 [ref. 30320], Turan et al. 2012:56 [ref. 31870], Barbieri et al. 2015:52 [ref. 35029], Çiçek et al. 2015:145 [ref. 35151], Turan et al. 2016:10 [ref. 34433], Turan et al. 2017:285 [ref. 35675], Turan et al. 2018:373 [ref. 36211], Çiçek et al. 2020:249 [ref. 37644], Çiçek et al. 2023:378 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2024:188 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Gobio bulgaricus Drensky 1926. Gobionidae. Distribution: Eurasia: Aegean basin (Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia). Habitat: freshwater.