vardarensis, Nemachilus barbatulus Karaman [S.] 1928:164 [Glasnik Skopskog Nauchnog Drustva [Glasnik -- Bulletin de la Société Scientifique de Skopje]. v. 6; ref. 15903] Vardar River basin, former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. Original genus is correctly Nemacheilus. Also in Karaman 1929:173 [ref. 15903]. •Synonym of Nemacheilus barbatulus (Linnaeus 1758), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Lelek 1987:256 [ref. 22962] as Noemacheilus). •Synonym of Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 1997:93 [ref. 22952]). •Synonym of Orthrias barbatulus (Linnaeus 1758), but a valid subspecies vardarensis (Karaman 1928) -- (Soric 2000:62 [ref. 28770]). •Synonym of Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus 1758), but a valid subspecies vardarensis (Karaman 1928) -- (Vasil'eva 1998:95 [ref. 23591], Economidis 2005:67 [ref. 28213]). •Synonym of Barbatula barbatula (linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 2012:78 [ref. 32367]). •Valid as Barbatula vardarensis (Karaman 1928) -- (Geiger et al. 2014:Table S2 [ref. 37408]). Current status: Valid as Barbatula vardarensis (Karaman 1928). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: Vardar / Axios River basin, Macedonia and Greece. Habitat: freshwater.