fasciatus, Aspius Nordmann [A. von] 1840:497, Pl. 23 (fig. 2) [Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée; ref. 3209] Rivières de la côte orientale du Pont-Euxin et habités par les Tcherkesses, Chapsoughes Abases, and Mingréliens [Rivers of west Transcaucasia]. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-3897 (4, poor condition), NMW 10407-19 (13). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:79 [ref. 19574]. •Synonym of Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch 1782), but a valid subspecies -- (Berg 1949:758 [ref. 20661], Lelek 1987:147 [ref. 22962], Michajlova 1989:25 [ref. 20062], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:735 [ref. 24702], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:166 [ref. 31251]). •Synonym of Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch 1782) -- (Kottelat 1997:44 [ref. 22952], Bogutskaya 1997:163 [ref. 23566], Bogutskaya 1998:56 [ref. 23589]). •Valid as Alburnoides fasciatus (Nordmann 1840) -- (Coad & Bogutskaya 2009:72 [ref. 30264], Bogutskaya & Coad 2009:139 [ref. 30270], Bogutskaya et al. 2010:467 [ref. 31109], Turan et al. 2013:99 [ref. 32523], Turan et al. 2013:101 [ref. 33119], Bayçelebi et al. 2015:787 [ref. 41410], Çiçek et al. 2015:145 [ref. 35151], Turan et al. 2016:80 [ref. 34162], Turan et al. 2017:567 [ref. 35182], Bektaş et al. 2019:[9] [ref. 36964], Turan et al. 2019:207 [ref. 37022], Çiçek et al. 2020:250 [ref. 37644], Kaya 2020:421 [ref. 37444], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Çiçek et al. 2023:385 [ref. 40625], Dyldin et al. 2023:[28] [ref. 40328], Çiçek et al. 2024:203 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Alburnoides fasciatus (Nordmann 1840). Leuciscidae: Leuciscinae. Distribution: Eurasia: western Transcaucasia (Russia, Georgia) and rivers of the southern Black Sea basin from Aksu (Giresun, Turkey) westward to Dagomys (Krasnodar, Russia). Habitat: freshwater.