tanaitica, Cobitis taenia Băcescu [M. C.] & Mayer [R.] 1969:52, Figs. 1, 2B, 3A, 4C, 5A-C [Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 9 (no. 1, art. 54); ref. 7715] Don River below Rostov, Ukraine. Syntypes: (6). •Synonym of Cobitis taenia Linnaeus 1758 -- (Kottelat 1997:89 [ref. 22952]). •Valid as Cobitis tanaitica Băcescu & Mayer 1969 -- (Bogutskaya et al. 2001:44 [ref. 26178], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:106 [ref. 28183], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:315 [ref. 29996], Kottelat 2012:29 [ref. 32367], Parin et al. 2014:100 [ref. 33547], Freyhof et al. 2018:72 [ref. 36385], Dyldin et al. 2023:[5] [ref. 40328], Volkov et al. 2023:240 [560] [ref. 40530]). Current status: Valid as Cobitis tanaitica Băcescu & Mayer 1969. Cobitidae. Distribution: Eastern Europe: Black Sea and Sea of Azov basins (Ukraine and Russia). Habitat: freshwater.