colchicus, Phoxinus phoxinus Berg [L. S.] 1910:169 [Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v. 15; ref. 19593] Bachvis Tzchali [Bachwis-tzchali] River in Ozurgety District, Georgia, Eurasia. Holotype (unique): ZMT 141a. Based on Phoxinus laevis of Kamensky 1901:62-63 [ref. 14761]. See also Reshetnikov et al. 1997:740 [ref. 24702]. •Synonym of Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus 1758), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Berg 1949:591 [ref. 20661], Lelek 1987:217 [ref. 22962], Bogutskaya 1997:174-175 [ref. 23566], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:167 [ref. 31251]). •Synonym of Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 1997:74 [ref. 22952], Bogutskaya 1998:68 [ref. 23589], Sideleva 2001:51 [ref. 26181], Sideleva 2003:9 [ref. 27815], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:170 [ref. 28369] as colhicus). •Valid as Phoxinus colchicus Berg 1910 -- (Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:93 [ref. 28183], Kottelat 2007:156 [ref. 29201], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:83 [ref. 29996], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:226 [ref. 29996], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:662 [ref. 34853] mention, Çiçek et al. 2016:117 [ref. 35152], Palandačić et al. 2017:3 [ref. 35519], Çiçek et al. 2020:253 [ref. 37644], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Çiçek et al. 2023:416 [ref. 40625], Dyldin et al. 2023:[36] [ref. 40328], Turan et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40351], Bayçelebi et al. 2024:106 [ref. 40795], Çiçek et al. 2024:267 [ref. 40789], Artaev et al. 2024:301 [ref. 40926]). Current status: Valid as Phoxinus colchicus Berg 1910. Leuciscidae: Phoxininae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caucasian Black Sea basin (Georgia, Russia and Turkey). Habitat: freshwater.