persa, Gobio Günther [A.] 1899:386, Pl. 23 (fig. B) [The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology v. 27 (no. 177); ref. 14704] Ocksa in the Gader Chai, northwestern Iran. Syntypes: BMNH 1899.9.30.90-96 (7). •Valid as Gobio persa Günther 1899 -- (Berg 1949:656 [ref. 20661]). •Valid as Gobio persus Günther 1899 -- (Coad 1995:17 [ref. 23608], Naseka 1996:160 [ref. 22943], Coad 1996:71 [ref. 25297], Coad 1998:102 [ref. 23869], Naseka et al. 1999:163 [ref. 24852], Gabrielyan 2001:27 [ref. 25867]). •Valid as Romanogobio persus (Günther 1899) -- (Naseka & Bogutskaya 1998:180 [ref. 23783], Naseka & Freyhof 2004:21 [ref. 27663], Fricke et al. 2007:46 [ref. 29533], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:165 [ref. 31251], Esmaeili et al. 2010:371 [ref. 33391], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:879 [ref. 34062], Teimori et al. 2015:90 [ref. 34095], Esmaeili et al. 2017:55 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:35 [ref. 36089], Coad 2019:12 [ref. 36775], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:106 [ref. 37983], Kaya et al. 2020:328 [ref. 37582], Çiçek et al. 2024:194 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Romanogobio persus (Günther 1899). Gobionidae. Distribution: Eastern Europe and Asia; Lake Urmia basin, Iran. Habitat: freshwater.