varpachovskii, Hemiculter Nikolskii [A. M.] 1903:359 [4] [Ezhegodnik. Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Akademii Nauk SSSR. v. 8 (for 1903); ref. 3203] Lake Buir-Nor, eastern Mongolia. Syntypes: ZIN 12789 (8). On p. 4 of separate. For notes on systematics see Kottelat 2006:36 [ref. 28831]. •Synonym of Hemiculter bleekeri Warpachowski 1887, but a valid subspecies -- (Yih & Wu 1964:89 [ref. 13499] as warpachowskii, Zhu 1995:40 [ref. 25213] as warpachowskii). •Synonym of Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewsky 1855) -- (Berg 1949:808 [ref. 20661]). •Synonym of Hemiculter lucidus (Dybowski 1872) -- (Bogutskaya & Naseka 1996:26 [ref. 22798], Naseka 1998:76 [ref. 23590]). •Synonym of Hemiculter lucidus (Dybowski 1872), but a valid subspecies -- (Luo & Chen in Chen et al. 1998:170 [ref. 23878] as warpachowskii). •Valid as Hemiculter varpachovskii Nikolskii 1903 -- (Kottelat 2006:36 [ref. 28831], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:320 [ref. 30085], Zhang et al. 2016:60 [ref. 34477] as warpachovskii and author as Nikolsky, Vasil'eva et al. 2022:11 [ref. 38982], Vasil'eva et al. 2022:262 [338] [ref. 39203], Dyldin et al. 2023:[14] [ref. 40328]). Current status: Valid as Hemiculter varpachovskii Nikolskii 1903. Xenocyprididae. Distribution: East Asia: upper Amur River basin (Mongolia, China and Russia). Habitat: freshwater.