meridionalis, Gobiobotia (Gobiobotia) longibarba Chen [Y.-Y.] & Cao [W.-H.] 1977:559, Fig. 10-7 [The cyprinid fishes of China v. 2; ref. 825] Guangdong and Guangxi, China. Syntypes: 58-7-294 (1), 58-7-301 (1), 58-7-604 (1), 58-7-667 (1), 64-158 (1), 66-085 to 86 (1, 1), 66-159 (1), 66-161 (1), 66-163 (1), 66-765 (1), 66-854 (1), 66-915 (1), 72-north-055 (1), 73-VI-1407 to 1408 (1, 1). Authorship also seen as Chen & Tsao. •Synonym of Gobiobotia longibarba Fang & Wang 1931, but a valid subspecies as described -- (Chen & Li in Chu & Chen 1989:119 [ref. 13584], Zheng et al. 1989:153 [ref. 21202], Jin in Pan et al. 1991:231 [ref. 23876], Ding 1994:307 [ref. 21531], Zhu 1995:101 [ref. 25213], He & Chen in Chen et al. 1998:404 [ref. 23878], Kottelat 2013:107 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Gobiobotia meridionalis Chen & Cao 1977 -- (Tang et al. 2001:13 [ref. 25373], Zhang et al. 2016:82 [ref. 34477] with authors and date as Chen & Tsao 1982, Guo 2021:299 [ref. 38617] with authors and date as Chen & Tsao 1983, Chen et al. 2022:105 [ref. 39146], Wang et al. 2024:20 [ref. 40908]). Current status: Valid as Gobiobotia meridionalis Chen & Cao 1977. Gobionidae. Distribution: East Asia: middle Yangtze River basin, China. Habitat: freshwater.