oxycephalus, Pseudophoxinus Sauvage [H.-E.] & Dabry de Thiersant [P.] 1874:11 [Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris (Zoologie et Paléontologie) (Sér. 6) v. 1 (art. 5); ref. 15665] Beijing [Pékin], Si-wan, and south Shen-si, China. No types known. •Synonym of Phoxinus lagowskii Dybowski 1869, but a valid subspecies -- (Berg 1949:583 [ref. 20661], Sheiko 1983:18 [ref. 37041], Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:18 [ref. 22798], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:740 [ref. 24702], see also Bogutskaya 1998:67 [ref. 23589]). •Valid as Phoxinus oxycephalus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874) -- (Wang 1984:38 [ref. 22951], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:274 [ref. 25598], Luo in Chen et al. 1998:86 [ref. 23878], Tang et al. 2001:12 [ref. 25373], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:43 [ref. 26178], Choi et al. 2003:157, 516 [ref. 26218], Shedko & Shedko 2003:321 [ref. 27966], Alekseyev et al. 2004:54 [ref. 27625], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:94 [ref. 28183], Kottelat 2006:88 [ref. 28831]). •Valid as Rhynchocypris oxycephalus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874) -- (Howes 1985:60 [ref. 5274], Kim 1997:258 [ref. 24032], Kim & Park 2002:166 [ref. 25913], Jang et al. 2003:119 [ref. 27681], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:333 [ref. 30085] as oxycephala, Zhang et al. 2016:55 [ref. 34477] with second authorship as Dabry, Dyldin & Orlov 2016:665 [ref. 34853], Lee & Sim 2017:5 [ref. 35390], Dyldin et al. 2021:25 [ref. 38804], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:67 [ref. 38158], Guo 2021:99 [ref. 38617], Dyldin et al. 2023:[27] [ref. 40328]). Current status: Valid as Rhynchocypris oxycephalus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874). Leuciscidae: Pseudaspininae. Distribution: East Asia: China, Korea and Russia. Habitat: freshwater.