pseudoscleropterus, Nemachilus Zhu [S.-Q.] & Wu [Y.-F.] 1981:221 [English p. 224], Fig. 1 [Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica v. 6 (no. 2); ref. 8523] Tributary of Golmud He (Qaidam Pendi), Qinghai Province, China. Holotype: NPIB 75066. Paratypes: NPIB 75046-48 (3), 75067 (1), 75068 (1), 75069-95 (27), 730452-55 (4). Original genus is correctly Nemacheilus. •Valid as Triplophysa pseudoscleroptera (Zhu & Wu 1981) -- (Zhu 1989:89 [ref. 17744], Wu & Wu 1992:158 [ref. 21205], Ding 1994:75 [ref. 21531], Zhang et al. 1995:51 [ref. 22734], Zhu 1995:115 [ref. 25213], Chen & Zhang in Chen 1998:71 [ref. 23556], Kottelat 2012:130 [ref. 32367], Zhang et al. 2016:142 [ref. 34477], Wu et al. 2016:295 [ref. 34665], Guo 2021:543 [ref. 38618]). Current status: Valid as Triplophysa pseudoscleroptera (Zhu & Wu 1981). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: Upper Yangtze River basin, China. Habitat: freshwater.