orphoides, Barbus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1842:193 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 16; ref. 1009] Java, Indonesia. No types known. Type information: Roberts 1993:21-22 [ref. 21799]. Simultaneous synonym of Barbus rubripinnis Valenciennes 1842; Bleeker 1860:338 [ref. 380] gave preference to rubripinnis, with question; see Kottelat 2013:166 [ref. 32989]. Due to prevailing usage, the name orphoides is here retained. •Synonym of Puntius sarana (Hamilton 1822), but a valid subspecies -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:282 [ref. 20764], Arunkumar & Tombi Singh 1998:256 [ref. 24931], Arunachalam & Sankaranarayanan 1999:336 [ref. 24216], Karmakar 2000:29 [ref. 25662]). •Synonym of Barbodes sarana (Hamilton 1822), but a valid subspecies -- (Menon 1999:69 [ref. 24904]). •Valid as Puntius orphoides (Valenciennes 1842) -- (Roberts 1993:21 [ref. 21799], Kottelat et al. 1993:43 [ref. 23448], Kottelat & Lim 1996:233 [ref. 23210], Doi 1997:11 [ref. 22832], Doi 2000:396 [ref. 25097], Kottelat 2001:74 [ref. 25780], Vishwanath & Laisram 2004:136 [ref. 27863], Shantakumar & Vishwanath 2006:2279 [ref. 28676], Zhang et al. 2016:97 [ref. 34477]). •Synonym of Systomus rubripinnis (Valenciennes 1842) -- (Kottelat 2013:166 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Systomus orphoides (Valenciennes 1842) -- (Rainboth 1996:104 [ref. 22772], Parenti & Lim 2005:186 [ref. 28285], Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:77 [ref. 32071], Plamoottil 2014:145 [ref. 33650], Plamoottil 2016:96 [ref. 34814], Bleher 2018:794 [ref. 36647], Ren et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37805]). Current status: Valid as Systomus orphoides (Valenciennes 1842). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: Southeast Asia: Sundaland, Chao Phraya and Mekong River basin, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam; introduced elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater.