barbatula, Cobitis Linnaeus [C.] 1758:303 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Fresh waters of Europe and Asia. Syntypes: NRM 68 (1 or 3). Probably 3 syntypes with no geographic origin, Norén et al. 2018:64 [ref. 35742]. •Valid as Cobitis barbatula Linnaeus 1758 -- (Herrera 1896:25 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Nemacheilus barbatulus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Berg 1949:868 [ref. 20661] as Nemachilus, Lelek 1987:256 [ref. 22962] as Noemacheilus, Chereshnev 1996:601 [ref. 24659] as Noemacheilus). •Valid as Noemacheilus barbatulus (Linnaeus 1758), subspecies barbatulus -- (Mitrofanov & Dukravec 1989:58 [ref. 37748]). •Valid as Orthrias barbatulus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Bănărescu & Nalbant 1995:449 [ref. 23187], Prokofiev 2003:726 [ref. 27494], Soric 2000:61 [ref. 28770]). •Valid as Orthrias barbatulus (Linnaeus 1758) and subspecies barbatulus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Prokofiev 2007:15 [ref. 30343]). •Valid as Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 1997:93 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:743 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:94 [ref. 23591], Novikov et al. 2000:161 [ref. 40929], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:45 [ref. 26178], Hanel 2003:55 [ref. 27894], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:112 [ref. 28183], Economidis 2005:67 [ref. 28213], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:172 [ref. 28369], Hanel & Lusk 2005:290 [ref. 28804], Fricke et al. 2007:50 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:329 [ref. 29996], Kottelat 2012:77 [ref. 32367], Parin et al. 2014:102 [ref. 33547], Barbieri et al. 2015:75 [ref. 35029], Çiçek et al. 2015:148 [ref. 35151], Norén et al. 2018:59 [ref. 35742], Tutman et al. 2018:220 [ref. 35876], Ćaleta et al. 2019:149 [ref. 37026], Gauliard et al. 2019:175 [ref. 36787], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:251 [ref. 37108], Pozdeev et al. 2022:6 [ref. 39511], Dyldin et al. 2023:[7] [ref. 40328], Nagy et al. 2023:356 [ref. 40348]). Current status: Valid as Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus 1758). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: Northern and eastern Europe and western Asia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.