caucasica, Gobio lepidolaemus var. Kamensky [S. N.] 1901:6 [German p. 142] [Die Cypriniden der Kaukasusländer und ihrer angrenzenden Meere. 2.; ref. 14761] Podkumok and Sulak rivers, northern Caucasus, Russia; Rioni River basin, Georgia. Syntypes: ?ZMT 130c, none at ZIN. In competition for use with Gobio uranoscopus var. caucasica Kamensky 1901. •Synonym of Gobio gobio (Linnaeus 1758), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Lelek 1987:190 [ref. 22962]). •Synonym of Gobio gobio (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Berg 1949:649 [ref. 20661], Kottelat 1997:60 [ref. 22952], Naseka 1998:82 [ref. 23590], Bănărescu et al. 1999:81 [ref. 24850]). •See Naseka et al. 2006:189 [ref. 28984]. •Synonym of Gobio lepidolaemus Kessler 1872, subspecies caucasica Kamensky 1901 -- (Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:165 [ref. 31251]). •See Mendel et al. 2008:1071 [ref. 29637]. •Valid as Gobio caucasicus Kamensky 1901 -- (Turan et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34433] and cf. caucasicus, Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2016:78 [ref. 34453], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Dyldin et al. 2023:[19] [ref. 40328]). Current status: Valid as Gobio caucasicus Kamensky 1901. Gobionidae. Distribution: Black Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.