melanoleuca, Cobitis taenia Nichols [J. T.] 1925:3 [American Museum Novitates No. 170; ref. 15551] Chin-ssu, Shansi Province, China. Holotype: AMNH 8403. Paratypes: FMNH 14829 (1). Type catalog: Ibarra & Stewart 1987:27 [ref. 12367]. •Synonym of Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874 -- (Chen 1981:24 [ref. 8242]). •Valid as Cobitis melanoleuca Nichols 1925 -- (Kim 1997:310 [ref. 24032], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:743 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:98 [ref. 23591], Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 1998:605 [ref. 24120], Kim et al. 2000:224 [ref. 25434], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:44 [ref. 26178], Choi et al. 2003:177, 519 [ref. 26218], Sideleva 2001:54 [ref. 26181], Sideleva 2003:11 [ref. 27815], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:105 [ref. 28183], Kottelat 2006:56 [ref. 28831], Ocock et al. 2006:30 [ref. 28933], Prokofiev 2007:118 [ref. 29368], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:309 [ref. 29996], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:337 [ref. 30085], Interesova et al. 2010:281 [ref. 31016] with subspecies, Chen & Chen 2011:150 [ref. 31435], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2011:928 [ref. 31700], Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2012:205 [ref. 31976], Chen & Chen 2013:94 [ref. 32990], Parin et al. 2014:99 [ref. 33547], Perdices et al. 2014:35 [ref. 35463], Chen et al. 2015:14 [ref. 35710], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2015:561 [ref. 33668], Perdices et al. 2016:7 [ref. 34266], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:668 [ref. 34853], Chen & Chen 2016:390 [ref. 34890], Tan et al. 2019:172 [ref. 36712], Vasil'eva et al. 2020:150 [ref. 37810], Dyldin et al. 2021:18 [ref. 38804] with question, Dyldin & Orlov 2021:63 [ref. 38158], Pozdeev et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39511], Dyldin et al. 2023:[5] [ref. 40328]). Current status: Valid as Cobitis melanoleuca Nichols 1925. Cobitidae. Distribution: East Asia: Yellow, Hai and Luan rivers (northern China); Don River basin and Sakhalin Island (Russia). Habitat: freshwater.