caspia, Atherina presbyter var. Eichwald [C. E. von] 1831:72 [Zoologia specialis quam expositis animalibus tum vivis Pars posterior [3]; ref. 5562] Caspian Sea. No types known. Also appeared as new in Eichwald 1838:100 [ref. 34622], as Atherina caspia. •Synonym of Atherina mochon Cuvier 1829 -- (Berg 1949:1003 [ref. 20662]). •Synonym of Atherina boyeri Risso 1810 -- (Maugé 1990:604 [ref. 17126], Coad 1995:26 [ref. 23608], Miller 2003:47 [ref. 27342], de Morais et al. 2016:2115 [ref. 34600]). •Synonym of Atherina boyeri Risso 1810, but a valid subspecies caspia Eichwald 1831-- (Mitrofanov & Dukravec 1989:94 [ref. 37748], Vasil'eva 1994: 618 [ref. 32016], Vasil'eva 1996: 203 [ref. 32017], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:746 [ref. 24702], Sokolov 1998:108 [ref. 23571] dated to 1838). •Valid as Atherina caspia Eichwald 1831 -- (Esmaeili et al. 2010:374 [ref. 33391], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:892 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:89 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:71 [ref. 36089], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:271 [ref. 37983], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[4] [ref. 37535], Yogurtçuoglu et al. 2020:[14] [ref. 37627], Çiçek et al. 2023:437 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2024:338 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Atherina caspia Eichwald 1831. Atherinidae: Atherininae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caspian Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.