brevis, Varicorhinus (Onychostoma) Wu [H.-W.] & Chen [?] in Wu, Lin, Chen, Chen & He 1977:318, Fig. 7-55 [The cyprinid fishes of China v. 2; ref. 4807] Sichuan, China. Syntypes: 1101 (1), 56-004 (1), 58-4-13 (1). •Valid as Varicorhinus brevis Wu & Chen 1977 -- (Zhu 1995:61 [ref. 25213]). •Valid as Onychostoma brevis (Wu & Chen 1977) -- (Ding 1994:341 [ref. 21531], Shan et al. in Yue 2000:146 [ref. 25272], Tang et al. 2001:13 [ref. 25373], Song et al. 2018:161 [ref. 35890]). Onychostoma breve (Wu & Chen 1977) -- (Xin et al. 2009:261 [ref. 30708], Hoang et al. 2015:123 [ref. 33811], Zhang et al. 2016:92 [ref. 34477]). Current status: Valid as Onychostoma breve (Wu & Chen 1977). Cyprinidae: Acrossocheilinae. Distribution: China. Habitat: freshwater.