lepidolaemus, Gobio fluviatilis var. Kessler [K. F.] 1872:59 [15] [Izvestiia Imperatorskago Obschchestva Liubitelei Estestvozaniia, Antropologii i Etnografii v. 10 (no. 1); ref. 14134] Serafshan [Zarafshan] River basin, Uzbekistan; Syr-Darya River at Khodzhent [Leninabad], Tajikistan. Syntypes: (about 50) BMNH 1872.5.30.78-79 (2), 1872.5.30.80-82 (3),1897.7.5.26 [ex MLSU] (1) Khodzhent, ZIN 2076 [or 2706] (25), ? not ZMMU P-1052 (1). Type catalog: Svetovidova 1978:257 [ref. 9011] and 262 [ref. 9011] with ZISP 2078 (p. 257) and 2076 (p. 262) as holotype. On p. 15 of separate. •Synonym of Gobio gobio (Linnaeus 1758), but a valid subspecies as described -- (Berg 1949:647 [ref. 20661], Coad 1981:10 [ref. 22348], Mitrofanov et al. 1988:18 [ref. 37734], Coad 1995:17 [ref. 23608], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:737 [ref. 24702], Naseka 1998:82 [ref. 23590], Vasil'eva et al. 2023:849 [ref. 40544]). •Synonym of Gobio gobio (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 1997:60 [ref. 22952], Bănărescu et al. 1999:81 [ref. 24850]). •Valid as Gobio lepidolaemus Kessler 1872 -- (Vasil'eva et al. 2004:767 [ref. 27962], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:165 [ref. 31251], Esmaeili et al. 2010:369 [ref. 33391], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:871 [ref. 34062], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2016:78 [ref. 34453], Çiçek et al. 2023:33 [ref. 40326], Vasil'eva et al. 2023:861 [ref. 40544]). Current status: Valid as Gobio lepidolaemus Kessler 1872. Gobionidae. Distribution: Central Asia and Middle East: Aral Sea basin (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Iran). Habitat: freshwater.