venusta, Triplophysa Zhu [S.-Q.] & Cao [W.-X.] 1988:96 [100], Figs. 3-6 [Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica v. 13 (no. 1); ref. 17743] Heilongtang Pond near Lijiang County town (26°53'N, 100°14'E), Yunnan Province, China. Holotype: IHASW 60IV0303. Paratypes: IHASW 60IV0304-09 (6), 60IV0566-75 (10). English description on p. 100. •Valid as Triplophysa venusta Zhu & Cao 1988 -- (Zhu 1989:78 [ref. 17744], Zhu 1995:114 [ref. 25213], Zhou & Cui 1997:180 [ref. 23279], Chen & Zhang in Chen 1998:65 [ref. 23556], Kottelat 2012:132 [ref. 32367], Zhang et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34477], Zhang et al. 2019:394 [ref. 36699]). Current status: Valid as Triplophysa venusta Zhu & Cao 1988. Nemacheilidae. Distribution: Upper Yangtze River basin, Yunnan Province, China. Habitat: freshwater.