platycephalus, Oreonectes Günther [A.] 1868:369 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 7; ref. 1990] Small stream near top of Hong Kong Mts., China, elevation 15000 feet. Syntypes: BMNH 1848.7.12.6-7 (2), 1855.3.27.16-18 (3), 1859.9.19.155-173 (19). •Valid as Oreonectes platycephalus Günther 1868 -- (Zhu & Cao 1987:326 [ref. 14139], Zheng et al. 1989:46 [ref. 21202], Zhu 1989:23 [ref. 17744], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:245 [ref. 23876], Lan et al. 1995:367 [ref. 23184], Zhu 1995:107 [ref. 25213], Kottelat 2001:46 [ref. 25482], Prokofiev 2005:460 [ref. 28631], Zhang et al. 2006:614 [ref. 29423], Du et al. 2008:29 [ref. 29544], Huang et al. 2009:445 [ref. 30323], Yang et al. 2011:208 [ref. 31282], Tang et al. 2012:489 [ref. 31595], Kottelat 2012:346 [ref. 32232], Kottelat 2012:94 [ref. 32367], Kottelat 2013:202 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:130 [ref. 34477], Deng et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34511], Deng et al. 2016:59 [ref. 34936], Huang et al. 2019:118 [ref. 37137], Du et al. 2021:4 [ref. 38600], Yu et al. 2023:94 [ref. 40492], Luo et al. 2024:294 [ref. 40971]). Current status: Valid as Oreonectes platycephalus Günther 1868. Nemacheilidae. Distribution: East Asia: Guangxi (southern China) and northern Vietnam. Habitat: freshwater.