purpurea, Botia Nichols [J. T.] 1925:4, Fig. 3 [American Museum Novitates No. 177; ref. 3179] Huping, Tungting Lake, Hunan Province, China. Holotype: AMNH 8401. Paratypes: AMNH 10422 (1), FMNH (1), ?MCZ 32682 [ex AMNH] (1). Type catalog: Ibarra & Stewart 1987:16 [ref. 12367]. •Valid as Leptobotia purpurea (Sauvage 1878) -- (Nalbant 2002:316 [ref. 27361]). •Synonym of Leptobotia taeniops (Sauvage 1878) -- (Kottelat 2004:15 [ref. 27360], Kottelat 2012:17 [ref. 32367]). •Not treated in Zhang et al. 2016:156 [ref. 34477]. Current status: Synonym of Leptobotia taeniops (Sauvage 1878). Botiidae: Leptobotiinae. Habitat: freshwater.