sinensis, Oryzias latipes Chen [Y.-R.], Uwa [H.] & Chu [X.-L.] 1989:240 (English p. 246), Fig. 1 [Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica v. 14 (no. 2); ref. 17651] Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. Holotype: KIZ 8610002. Paratypes: KIZ (20), KIZ (4, c&s). Type catalog: Du et al. 2013:355 [ref. 32939]. •Synonym of Oryzias latipes (Temminck & Schlegel 1846), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Yang 1991:201 [ref. 13585], Yang & Chen 1995:104 [ref. 23555], Zhu 1995:160 [ref. 25213], Chen in Chen 1998:318 [ref. 23556], Zhang et al. 2019:511 [ref. 36699]). •Status as a species or subspecies uncertain -- (Roberts 1998:221 [ref. 23471], Kottelat 2001:144 [ref. 25780]). •Valid as Oryzias sinensis Chen, Uwa & Chu 1989 -- (Kim 1997:379 [ref. 24032], Kottelat 1998:109 [ref. 23436], Kottelat 2001:56 [ref. 25482], Kim & Park 2002:302 [ref. 25913], Choi et al. 2003:219, 545 [ref. 26218], Jang et al. 2003:119 [ref. 27681], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:176 [ref. 28183], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:475 [ref. 29996], Parenti 2008:587 [ref. 29902], Kottelat 2013:289 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:191 [ref. 34477], Dyldin et al. 2020:100 [ref. 37569], Fu et al. 2021:9572 [ref. 39347], Huang et al. 2022:283 [ref. 39620], Endruweit 2024:34 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Oryzias sinensis Chen, Uwa & Chu 1989. Adrianichthyidae: Oryziinae. Distribution: East Asia: Korea, upper Yangtze, Mekong, Red and Pearl River basins, Yunnan, China and Taiwan. Introduced in Europe, Russia and ?Southeast Asia. Habitat: freshwater.