aurata, Cobitis De Filippi [F.] 1863:391 [Archivio per la Zoologia, l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia v. 2; ref. 18082] Stream near Sartschem [apparently Sarcham-e Sofla, 39°07;N, 47°54'E], Iran. Lectotype: MZUT 674. Paralectotypes: ?MSNG 42727 [ex Univ. Genova 365] (2). Type catalog: Tortonese 1940:141 [ref. 21559]. Also appeared in De Filippi 1865:360 [ref. 13943] as Acanthopsis aurata. Lectotype selected by Tortonese 1961:188 [ref. 10343]. •Valid as Cobitis aurata De Filippi 1863 -- (Berg 1949:894 [ref. 20661], Sivkov & Dobrovolov 1986:3 [ref. 8038], Lelek 1987:250 [ref. 22962], Mitrofanov & Dukravec 1989:66 [ref. 37748], Coad 1991:24 [ref. 15702], Coad 1995:21 [ref. 23608], Economidis & Nalbant 1996:317 [ref. 23723], Coad 1996:71 [ref. 25297], Nalbant & Bianco 1998:121 [ref. 23810], Coad 1998:102 [ref. 23869], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:321 [ref. 29996], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:167 [ref. 31251] as subspecies aurata, Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2012:205 [ref. 31976]). •Questionably the same as Sabanejewia balcanica (Karaman 1922) -- (Kottelat 1997:90 [ref. 22952]). •Valid as Sabanejewia aurata (De Filippi 1863) -- (Esmaeili et al. 2010:372 [ref. 33391], Kottelat 2012:41 [ref. 32367], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:882 [ref. 34062], Çiçek et al. 2015:148 [ref. 35151], Esmaeili et al. 2017:61 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:41 [ref. 36089], Sayyadzadeh et al. 2019:279 [ref. 36752], Çiçek et al. 2020:244 [ref. 37644], Dyldin et al. 2020:92, 95 [ref. 37569], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:159 [ref. 37983], Kaya et al. 2020:337 [ref. 37582], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[4] [ref. 37535], Çiçek et al. 2022:86 [ref. 39222], Sheraliev & Kayumova 2022:36 [ref. 39437], Vasil'eva et al. 2022:12 [ref. 39491], Çiçek et al. 2023:9 [ref. 40326], Çiçek et al. 2023:340 [ref. 40625], Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2023:[10] [ref. 40114], Çiçek et al. 2024:59 [ref. 40789], Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev 2024:[3] [ref. 40732]). Current status: Valid as Sabanejewia aurata (De Filippi 1863). Cobitidae. Distribution: Eurasia: Caspian Sea basin. Habitat: freshwater.