turcica, Cobitis taenia Hankó [B.] 1925:154, Fig. 3; Pl. 3 (fig. 8) [Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici v. 21 (for 29 Dec. 1924); ref. 2035] Eregli, Turkey. Syntypes: MNH (2). •Synonym of Cobitis taenia Linnaeus 1758 -- (Berg 1949:891 [ref. 20661]). •Valid as Cobitis turcica Hankó 1925 but may be same as Cobitis phrygica Battalgil 1944 -- (Coad & Sarieyyüpoglu 1988:429 [ref. 9105]). •Valid as Cobitis turcica Hankó 1925 -- (Nalbant & Bianco 1998:120 [ref. 23810], Erk'akan et al. 1999:24 [ref. 25143], Ludwig et al. 2001:388 [ref. 25216], Fricke et al. 2007:49 [ref. 29533], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2011:928 [ref. 31700], Kottelat 2012:29 [ref. 32367], Chen et al. 2013:380 [ref. 32679], Çiçek et al. 2015:148 [ref. 35151], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2017:124 [ref. 35196], Eagderi et al. 2017:50 [ref. 35199], Erk'akan et al. 2017:88 [ref. 35341], Çiçek et al. 2018:17 [ref. 36267], Freyhof et al. 2018:38 [ref. 36385] dated 1924, Özdemir 2019:597 [ref. 36384], Çiçek et al. 2020:244 [ref. 37644], Kelleci et al. 2021:282 [ref. 38359], Eagderi et al. 2022:419 [ref. 39387], Çiçek et al. 2023:340 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2023:152 [ref. 40728], Çiçek et al. 2024:58 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Cobitis turcica Hankó 1925. Cobitidae. Distribution: Asia Minor: Mediterranean tributaries, southern Anatolia (Turkey). Habitat: freshwater.