lepturus, Gymnostomus Boulenger [G. A.] 1900:961, Pl. 69 (fig. 1) [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899 (pt 4); ref. 14715] Five-fingers Mountains, Hainan Island, China. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1899.11.30.21. Specific name has to be treated as a noun (ICZN Art. 31.2.2). •Valid as Scaphesthes lepturus (Boulenger 1900) -- (Jin in Kuang et al. 1986:120 [ref. 26639] dated 1899). •Valid as Gymnostomus lepturus Boulenger 1900 -- (Mai 1978:46 [ref. 13511]). •Valid as Varicorhinus lepturus (Boulenger 1900) -- (Wu et al. 1977:305 [ref. 4807], Chu & Cui in Chu & Chen 1989:213 [ref. 13584], Zheng et al. 1989:188 [ref. 21202], Chen et al. in Pan et al. 1991:159 [ref. 23876], Zhu 1995:60 [ref. 25213], Zhang et al. 2016:92 [ref. 34477]). •Valid as Onychostoma lepturum (Boulenger 1900) -- (Jang-Liaw & Chen 2013:68 [ref. 32417]). •Valid as Onychostoma leptura (Boulenger 1900) -- (Bănărescu 1971:247 [ref. 7666], Shan et al. in Yue 2000:133 [ref. 25272], Kottelat 2013:129 [ref. 32989], Hoang et al. 2015:123, 136 [ref. 33811], Song et al. 2018:161 [ref. 35890]). •Valid as Onychostoma lepturus (Boulenger 1900) -- (Kottelat 2001:32 [ref. 25482], Kottelat 2001:63 [ref. 25780]). Current status: Valid as Onychostoma lepturus (Boulenger 1900). Cyprinidae: Acrossocheilinae. Distribution: Southeast Asia: China, Laos and Vietnam. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.