turcmenicus, Nemachilus Berg [L. S.] 1932:149, Fig. 1 [Zoologischer Anzeiger v. 98 (nos 5/6); ref. 16357] Kelte-chinar River [Cherokh River] near Gyaurs (37°47'N, 58°44'E), Turkmenistan. Syntypes: ZIN 11064 (3). Original genus is correctly Nemacheilus. •Synonym of Nemacheilus sargadensis Nikolskii 1900 -- (Berg 1949:876 [ref. 20661] as Nemachilus, Coad 1981:15 [ref. 22348] as Noemacheilus). •Synonym of Nemacheilus sargadensis Nikolskii 1900, but a valid subspecies -- (Coad 1995:23 [ref. 23608]). •Synonym of Paraschistura sargadensis (Nikolskii 1900) -- (Prokofiev 2009:892 [ref. 30604], Kottelat 2012:102 [ref. 32367] with question). •Valid as Paraschistura turcmenica (Berg 1932) -- (Freyhof et al. 2015:17 [ref. 33865], Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi 2015:299 [ref. 34027], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:888 [ref. 34062], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2015:4 [ref. 34063], Esmaeili et al. 2017:72 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:52 [ref. 36089], Sayyadzadeh et al. 2019:582 [ref. 36833], Eagderi et al. 2019:266 [ref. 36967], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:203 [ref. 37983], Çiçek et al. 2023:14 [ref. 40326], Çiçek et al. 2024:104 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Paraschistura turcmenica (Berg 1932). Nemacheilidae. Distribution: Middle East, northern-central Asia and South Asia:Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Habitat: freshwater.