amurensis, Rostrogobio Taranetz [A. Ya.] 1937:114 [Vestnik Dal'nevostocnogo Filiala Akademii Nauk SSSR = Bulletin of the Far Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR No. 23; ref. 4340] Middle and lower Amur River and Khanka Lake, Russia. Syntypes: (several) ZMMU P-3459 (1). Type catalog: Svetovidova 1978:257 [ref. 9011] as paratypes. •Valid as Saurogobio amurensis (Taranetz 1937) -- (Berg 1949:667 [ref. 20661]). •Synonym of Microphysogobio tungtingensis (Nichols 1926) -- (Bănărescu & Nalbant 1966:201 [ref. 20622]). •Synonym of Microphysogobio tungtingensis (Nichols 1926), but a valid subspecies -- (Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:37 [ref. 22798], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:739 [ref. 24702], Naseka 1998:84 [ref. 23590]). •Valid as Rostrogobio amurensis Taranetz 1937 -- (Cheng & Zhou 1997:176 [ref. 26385], Yue in Chen et al. 1998:372 [ref. 23878], Zhang et al. 2016:78 [ref. 34477]). •Valid as Microphysogobio amurensis (Taranetz 1937) -- (Zhu 1995:82 [ref. 25213], Kottelat 2006:87 [ref. 28831], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:325 [ref. 30085], Ying et al. 2011:61 [ref. 31333], Huang et al. 2016:207 [ref. 34842], Huang et al. 2017:table 1 [ref. 35245], Dyldin et al. 2023:[22] [ref. 40328]). Current status: Valid as Microphysogobio amurensis (Taranetz 1937). Gobionidae. Distribution: East Asia: Amur River basin (Russia and China). IUCN (2022): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater.