microlepis, Xenocypris Bleeker [P.] 1871:58, Pl. 9 [Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam) v. 12 (art. 2); ref. 6421] Chang Jiang [Yangtze River], China. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-5944. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:73 [ref. 19574]. Also in Bleeker 1871:68 [ref. 17073]. •Synonym of Xenocypris argentea Günther 1868 -- (Yang 1964:122 [ref. 13500]). •Valid as Xenocypris microlepis Bleeker 1871 -- (Zheng et al. 1989:114 [ref. 21202], Ding 1994:161 [ref. 21531], Zhu 1995:43 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:134 [ref. 26385], Liu & He in Chen et al. 1998:218 [ref. 23878], Kottelat 2001:44 [ref. 25482], Tang et al. 2001:12 [ref. 25373], Wang et al. 2001:110 [ref. 26566], Zhang et al. 2016:66 [ref. 34477], Zhang et al. 2019:200 [ref. 36699], Guo 2021:187 [ref. 38617]). •Valid as Plagiognathops microlepis (Bleeker 1871) -- (Berg 1949:635 [ref. 20661], Yang 1964:127 [ref. 13500], Mai 1978:172 [ref. 13511], Wang 1984:57 [ref. 22951], Li 1986:482 [ref. 6154], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:28 [ref. 22798], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:740 [ref. 24702], Bogutskaya 1998:77 [ref. 23589], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:43 [ref. 26178], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:100 [ref. 28183], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:336 [ref. 30085], Kottelat 2013:142 [ref. 32989], Dyldin et al. 2020:105 [ref. 37569], Dyldin et al. 2023:[16] [ref. 40328]). Current status: Valid as Plagiognathops microlepis (Bleeker 1871). Xenocyprididae. Distribution: East Asia: China and Russia. Habitat: freshwater.