balcanica, Cobitis Karaman [S.] 1922:307 [1], Figs. 1-2 [Glasnik Hrvatskoga naravoslovnoga drustva = Glasnik der Kroatischen Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Zagreb. v. 34 (no. 3); ref. 16105] Vardar River, Yugoslavia. Paratypes: MNHN 1928-0222 (1). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:93 [ref. 19574]. On p. 1 of separate. •Synonym of Cobitis aurata De Filippi 1863 -- (Berg 1949:894 [ref. 20661]). •Synonym of Cobitis aurata De Filippi 1863, but a valid subspecies -- (Lelek 1987:250 [ref. 22962], Ahnelt & Tiefenbach 1994:11 [ref. 22364], Economidis & Nalbant 1996:317 [ref. 23723]). •Synonym of Sabanejewia aurata (De Filippi 1863), but a valid subspecies -- (Vasil'eva 1998:102 [ref. 23591], Pehlivanov 2000:47 [ref. 25202]). •Synonym of Sabanejewia aurata (De Filippi 1863) -- (Bogutskaya et al. 2001:45 [ref. 26178]). •Valid as Sabanejewia balcanica (Karaman 1922) -- (Kottelat 1997:91 [ref. 22952], Ludwig et al. 2001:388 [ref. 25216], Hanel 2003:55 [ref. 27894], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:173 [ref. 28369], Hanel & Lusk 2005:284 [ref. 28804], Fricke et al. 2007:50 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:322 [ref. 29996], Kottelat 2012:41 [ref. 32367], Barbieri et al. 2015:74 [ref. 35029], Çiçek et al. 2015:148 [ref. 35151], Tutman et al. 2018:219 [ref. 35876], Ćaleta et al. 2019:149 [ref. 37026], Çiçek et al. 2020:244 [ref. 37644], Vasil'eva et al. 2022:11 [ref. 39491], Çiçek et al. 2023:340 [ref. 40625], Fedočák et al. 2023:2 [ref. 40768], Shumka et al. 2023:39 [ref. 40747], Çiçek et al. 2024:59 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Sabanejewia balcanica (Karaman 1922). Cobitidae. Distribution: Eurasia: Black Sea and Aegean Sea basin (Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece and Turkey). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.