rossicus, Alburnoides bipunctatus Berg [L. S.] 1924:56 [Izvestiya Otdeleniya Prikladnoi Ikhtiologii, Leningrad v. 2; ref. 15438] Dnieper and Volga rivers, Russia. Probable syntypes: (27) ZIN 2684 (8), 7152 (5), 10759 (8). Berg specimens: ZIN 12033 (1). •Synonym of Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch 1782), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Berg 1949:757 [ref. 20661], Lelek 1987:147 [ref. 22962], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:735 [ref. 24702]). •Synonym of Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch 1782) -- (Kottelat 1997:44 [ref. 22952], Bogutskaya 1998:56 [ref. 23589]). •Valid as Alburnoides rossicus Berg 1924 -- (Coad & Bogutskaya 2009:72 [ref. 30264], Bogutskaya & Coad 2009:137 [ref. 30270], Bogutskaya et al. 2010:467 [ref. 31109], Turan et al. 2014:101 [ref. 33119], Parin et al. 2014:67 [ref. 33547], Bektaş et al. 2019:[9] [ref. 36964], Turan et al. 2019:208 [ref. 37022], Dyldin et al. 2020:105 [ref. 37569], Pozdeev et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39511], Dyldin et al. 2023:[28] [ref. 40328] with question). Current status: Valid as Alburnoides rossicus Berg 1924. Leuciscidae: Leuciscinae. Distribution: Eurasia: drainages of Black Sea, Sea of Azov, Caspian Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.