fossilis, Cobitis Linnaeus [C.] 1758:303 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Europe. Syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.121 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin), NRM 69 (1). Type catalog: Wheeler 1958:213 [ref. 13434], Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:218-219 [ref. 20707]. •Valid as Misgurnus fossilis (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Berg 1949:900 [ref. 20661], Okada 1961:534 [ref. 6363], Lelek 1987:253 [ref. 22962], Mrakovcic et al. 1995:184 [ref. 23079], Kottelat 1997:90 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:744 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:102 [ref. 23591], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:45 [ref. 26178], Bianco & Ketmaier 2001:201 [ref. 26728], Hanel 2003:55 [ref. 27894], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:109 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:173 [ref. 28369], Hanel & Lusk 2005:287 [ref. 28804], Fricke 2007:28 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:50 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:319 [ref. 29996], Interesova et al. 2010:281 [ref. 31016], Kottelat 2012:36 [ref. 32367], Parin et al. 2014:101 [ref. 33547], Çiçek et al. 2015:148 [ref. 35151], Šukalo et al. 2018:126 [ref. 39525], Tutman et al. 2018:219 [ref. 35876], Ćaleta et al. 2019:149 [ref. 37026], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:251 [ref. 37108], Pozdeev et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39511], Shedko & Vasil'eva 2022:12 [ref. 39201], Dyldin et al. 2023:[6] [ref. 40328], Nagy et al. 2023:356 [ref. 40348]). Current status: Valid as Misgurnus fossilis (Linnaeus 1758). Cobitidae. Distribution: Europe and western Asia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.