melarancia, Schistura Kottelat [M.] 2000:65, Fig. 46 [Journal of South Asian Natural History v. 5 (no. 1); ref. 25040] Nam Kouat near Ban Nam Kouat, a tributary of Nam Nga, 20°34'35"N, 102°07'56"E, Oudomxai Province, Laos. Holotype: ZRC 45357. Paratypes: CMK 14024 (5), 14115 (11), 14202 (8); LARRI uncat. (3); NRM 44896 (3); ZRC 45358 (3). •Valid as Schistura melarancia Kottelat 2000 -- (Kottelat 2001:111 [ref. 25780], Kottelat 2012:113 [ref. 32367], Bohlen & Šlechtová 2013:25 [ref. 32804], Kottelat 2013:209 [ref. 32989], Fu et al. 2021:9568 [ref. 39347] as cf. melarancia, Taki et al. 2021:219 [ref. 39830]). Current status: Valid as Schistura melarancia Kottelat 2000. Nemacheilidae. Distribution: Southeast Asia: Nam Ou River drainage, northern Laos and northwestern Vietnam. Habitat: freshwater.