orientalis, Nemachilus kungessanus Herzenstein [S. M.] 1888:44, Pl. 6 (fig. 2) [Zoologischer Theil, St. Petersburg v. 3 (2 abt.) (1); ref. 2147] Tsaidam [Zaidam], Chuan-Che River, Qinghai Province, China. Syntypes: ZIN 7232 (4), 7271 (6+). Original genus is correctly Nemacheilus. •Valid as Triplophysa orientalis (Herzenstein 1888) -- (Zhu 1989:84 [ref. 17744], Wu & Wu 1992:172 [ref. 21205], Ding 1994:67 [ref. 21531], Zhang et al. 1995:50 [ref. 22734], Zhu 1995:114 [ref. 25213], Chen & Zhang in Chen 1998:68 [ref. 23556], Prokofiev 2002:S47 [ref. 27462], Prokofiev 2006:256 [ref. 29061], Li et al. 2007:47 [ref. 29309], Zheng et al. 2010:[4] [ref. 30841], Prokofiev 2010:907 [ref. 31096], He et al. 2012:278 [ref. 32339], Kottelat 2012:129 [ref. 32367], Kottelat 2013:213 [ref. 32989], Li et al.2015:423 [ref. 33642], Yan et al. 2015:304 [ref. 33966], Prokofiev 2016:201 [ref. 34459] and as Nemacheilus orientalis orientalis p. 203, Zhang et al. 2016:142 [ref. 34477], Wu et al. 2016:295 [ref. 34665], Zhang et al. 2019:388 [ref. 36699], Guo 2021:512 [ref. 38618], Wang et al. 2024:10 [ref. 40861]). Current status: Valid as Triplophysa orientalis (Herzenstein 1888). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: East Asia: upper Yangtze River basin, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Habitat: freshwater.