sinensis, Cobitis Sauvage [H.-E.] & Dabry de Thiersant [P.] 1874:16 [Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris (Zoologie et Paléontologie) (Sér. 6) v. 1 (art. 5); ref. 15665] Creeks in western Szechwan, China. Syntypes: MNHN 1872-6779 (4, poor condition). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:92-93 [ref. 19574]. Specific name declared a noun in the original description. •Valid as Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874 -- (Chen 1981:24 [ref. 8242], Chen in Kuang et al. 1986:145 [ref. 26639], Zheng et al. 1989:60 [ref. 21202], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:253 [ref. 23876], Ding 1994:115 [ref. 21531], Zhu 1995:127 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:199 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:305 [ref. 24032], Kim et al. 1999:375 [ref. 25348], Freyhof & Serov 2000:214 [ref. 35928], Kim et al. 2000:224 [ref. 25434], Kottelat 2001:49 [ref. 25482] as cf. sinensis, Tang et al. 2001:14 [ref. 25373], Kim & Park 2002:220 [ref. 25913], Choi et al. 2003:177, 519 [ref. 26218], Son & Kim 2002:240 [ref. 26957], Jang et al. 2003:119 [ref. 27681], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:106 [ref. 28183], Son & He 2005:238 [ref. 29190], Chen & Chen 2007:103 [ref. 29350], Chen & Chen 2011:150 [ref. 31435], Kottelat 2012:28 [ref. 32367], Chen et al. 2013:382 [ref. 32679], Chen & Chen 2013:94 [ref. 32990], Kottelat 2013:178 [ref. 32989], Chen et al. 2015:15 [ref. 35710], Zhang et al. 2016:152 [ref. 34477], Tan et al. 2019:169 [ref. 36712], Dyldin et al. 2020:92, 95 [ref. 37569], Guo 2021:678 [ref. 38618]). Current status: Valid as Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874. Cobitidae. Distribution: East Asia: Yangtze River basin, northern China. Habitat: freshwater.