macedonicus, Barbus barbus Karaman [S.] 1928:151 [Glasnik Skopskog Nauchnog Drustva [Glasnik -- Bulletin de la Société Scientifique de Skopje]. v. 6; ref. 15903] Vardar River, Republic of Macedonia. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. Also as new in Karaman 1929:171 [ref. 15904]. •Synonym of Barbus barbus (Linnaeus 1758), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Lelek 1987:156 [ref. 22962]). •Apparently a synonym of Barbus cyclolepis Heckel 1837 -- (Bianco 1998:127 [ref. 23811]). •Valid as Barbus macedonicus Karaman 1928 -- (Kottelat 1997:49 [ref. 22952], Tsigenopoulos & Berrebi 2000:174 [ref. 25489], Economidis in Bănărescu & Bogutskaya 2003:271 [ref. 27353] Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:127 [ref. 29996], Levin et al. 2012:544 [ref. 33912], Barbieri et al. 2015:46 [ref. 35029], Turan et al. 2018:551 [ref. 36092]). Current status: Valid as Barbus macedonicus Karaman 1928. Cyprinidae: Barbinae. Distribution: Greece and Macedonia. Habitat: freshwater.