molitrix, Leuciscus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1844:360 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 17; ref. 1010] China. No types known. •Valid as Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Valenciennes 1844) -- (Berg 1949:846 [ref. 20661], Okada 1961:740 [ref. 6363] as moritrix, Yang 1964:225 [ref. 13500], Mai 1978:174 [ref. 13511], Coad 1981:10 [ref. 22348], Sawada in Masuda et al. 1984:58 [ref. 6441], Wang 1984:72 [ref. 22951], Chen in Kuang et al. 1986:58 [ref. 26639] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Ortega & Vari 1986:6 [ref. 9708], Robison & Buchanan 1988:190 [ref. 23393], Chen & Li in Chu & Chen 1989:100 [ref. 13584], Paulin et al. 1989:81 [ref. 24556], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:290 [ref. 25598], Zheng et al. 1989:117 [ref. 21202], Coad 1991:17 [ref. 15702], Pethiyagoda 1991:81 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:330 [ref. 20764], Liu in Pan et al. 1991:236 [ref. 23876], Boschung 1992:50 [ref. 23239], Mitrofanov et al. 1992:200 [ref. 37756], Etnier & Starnes 1993:179 [ref. 22809], Kottelat et al. 1993:35 [ref. 23448], Skelton 1993:191 [ref. 24071], Zhuo in Ding 1994:170 [ref. 21531], Yang & Chen 1995:46 [ref. 23555], Coad 1995:18 [ref. 23608], Zhu 1995:101 [ref. 25213], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:15 [ref. 22798], Coad 1996:84 [ref. 25304], Cheng & Zhou 1997:193 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:510 [ref. 24032], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:738 [ref. 24702], Chen in Chen 1998:128 [ref. 23556], Bogutskaya 1998:61 [ref. 23589], Chen in Chen et al. 1998:228 [ref. 23878], Garcia Romero et al. 1998:189 [ref. 27761], Fricke 1999:84 [ref. 24106], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:171 [ref. 24760], Fuller et al. 1999:81 [ref. 25838], Nakabo 2000:261 [ref. 25086], Rafique 2000:324 [ref. 25220], Azeroual et al. 2000:20 [ref. 25366], Tang et al. 2001:14 [ref. 25373], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:17 [ref. 25650], Matsuura et al. 2000:92 [ref. 26000], Kottelat 2001:28 [ref. 25482], Gabrielyan 2001:27 [ref. 25867], Ross et al. 2001:160 [ref. 25978], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:43 [ref. 26178], Wang et al. 2001:114 [ref. 26566], Skelton 2001:191 [ref. 27406], Kim & Park 2002:158 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:261 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:157, 512 [ref. 26218], Mirza 2003:12 [ref. 27265], López et al. 2003:9 [ref. 27366], Hanel 2003:54 [ref. 27894], Nelson et al. 2004:72 [ref. 27807], Boschung & Mayden 2004:189 [ref. 27995], Menni 2004:71 [ref. 28131], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:82 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:169 [ref. 28369], Hanel & Lusk 2005:276 [ref. 28804], Kottelat 2006:36 [ref. 28831], Scharpf 2005:21 [ref. 28940] as molitris, Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:194 [ref. 29996], Shrestha 2008:89 [ref. 29923], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:331 [ref. 30085], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:166 [ref. 31251], Minckley & Marsh 2009:181 [ref. 31114], Matamoros et al. 2009:8 [ref. 31241], Coad 2010:188 [ref. 36620], Esmaeili et al. 2010:370 [ref. 33391], Page & Burr 2011:153 [ref. 31215], Gurung et al. 2013:4882 [ref. 32969], Kottelat 2013:112 [ref. 32989], Page et al. 2013:72 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:104 [ref. 35745], Parin et al. 2014:80 [ref. 33547], Barbieri et al. 2015:53 [ref. 35029], Çiçek et al. 2015:145 [ref. 35151], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:72 [ref. 34894], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:873 [ref. 34062], McDowall & Stewart 2015:316 [ref. 34241], Mirande & Koerber 2015:10 [ref. 35117], Bertaco et al. 2016:435 [ref. 34561], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:661 [ref. 34853], Nión et al. 2016:26 [ref. 35565], Zhang et al. 2016:66 [ref. 34477], Esmaeili et al. 2017:50 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:29 [ref. 36089], Ćaleta et al. 2019:172 [ref. 37026], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:252 [ref. 37108], Zhang et al. 2019:207 [ref. 36699], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:99 [ref. 37983], Reis et al. 2020:456 [ref. 38364], Baikeche et al. 2021:959 [ref. 39080], Dyldin et al. 2021:21 [ref. 38804], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:64 [ref. 38158], Fu et al. 2021:9569 [ref. 39347], Guo 2021:197 [ref. 38617], Taki et al. 2021:108 [ref. 39830], Çiçek et al. 2022:4 [ref. 38985], Pozdeev et al. 2022:5 [ref. 39511], Bertaco & Azevedo 2023:3 [ref. 39997], Bertaco et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40740], Chan et al. 2023:137 [ref. 40365], Çiçek et al. 2023:31 [ref. 40326], Çiçek et al. 2023:19 [ref. 40616], Dyldin et al. 2023:[14] [ref. 40328], Jamandre 2023:166 [ref. 40455], Loureiro et al. 2023:178 [ref. 40506], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2023:32 [ref. 40667], Nagy et al. 2023:356 [ref. 40348], Page et al. 2023:66 [ref. 40505], Saad et al. 2023:25 [ref. 40501], Shumka et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40747], Çiçek et al. 2024:183 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Valenciennes 1844). Xenocyprididae. Distribution: East Asia: Yangtze River basin (China and Russia). Widely introduced elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.