kubanicus, Barbus tauricus Berg [L. S.] 1912:120 [Ezhegodnik, Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v. 17 (1912); ref. 14829] Upper and middle Kuban River, Russia. Syntypes: ZIN 15317 (5), 15318 (11), 15319 (6). •Synonym of Barbus tauricus Kessler 1877, but a valid subspecies as described -- (Berg 1949:691 [ref. 20661], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:735 [ref. 24702], Bogutskaya 1998:89 [ref. 23589], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:44 [ref. 26178], Bogutskaya et al. in Bănărescu & Bogutskaya 2003:397 [ref. 27353]). •Synonym of Barbus barbus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 1997:47 [ref. 22952]). •Valid as Barbus kubanicus Berg 1912 -- (Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:47 [ref. 28183], Levin et al. 2012:544 [ref. 33912], Parin et al.2014:70 [ref. 33547], Levin et al. 2019:33 [ref. 36643], Dyldin et al. 2020:111 [ref. 37569], Dyldin et al. 2023:[10] [ref. 40328]). Current status: Valid as Barbus kubanicus Berg 1912. Cyprinidae: Barbinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Kuban River drainage, Sea of Azov and the Manych valley system, northwestern Caucasus (Russia). Habitat: freshwater.