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locality: Kazakhstan: Alma-Atinskaya oblast: Kaskelen
River, 2 km before it enters Ili River; holotype: ZMMU
P-3638; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
10.42.93 Triplophysa shaanxiensis Chen, in Chen, Xu,
Fang, Song & Wang, 1987
Triplophysa shaanxiensis Chen, in Chen, Xu, Fang, Song &
Wang, 1987: 21, fig. 8 (type locality: China: Shaanxi:
Tongchuan Xian; holotype: SIZX 801811; adjective, -is,
-is, -e)
10.42.94 Triplophysa shehensis Menon, 1987
Triplophysa shehensis Menon, 1987: 212, pl. 16 fig. 9 (type
locality: India: Kashmir: Ladakh: Sheh, irrigation canal,
nearly 12 km east of Leh; holotype: ZSI/NRS uncat.;
adjective, -is, -is, -e)
Noemacheilus shehensis Tilak, 1990: 138, figs. 2–3 (type
locality: India: Kashmir: Ladakh: irrigation canal at Sheh,
nearly 12 km east of Leh; holotype: ZSI/NRS 1208; junior
secondary homonym of Triplophysa shehensis Menon,
1987: 212; paper dated 1990 but possibly not published
until 1997; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
Nomenclatural notes. Menon (1987) described this species
and indicated the author as Tilak, then in press. Tilak's paper
only appeared in 1990 (date on the cover, actual publication
possibly much later, the paper is first listed in Zoological
Record for 1997). The description in Menon is based on a
single of Tilak's specimens and is not extracted from Tilak's
text. Thus Menon is author of the name and the single specimen
he examined is the holotype. The locality data listed
by Menon is only "irrigation canal, Sheh" but as all of Tilak's
(1997) specimens are from a single locality, it can be
completed as above. Tilak's N. shehensis, being based on a
separate description, without reference to Menon's description,
is a distinct nominal species and a junior secondary
homonym of T. shehensis when transferred to Triplophysa.
It is not known whether the holotype of the two nominal
species is the same specimen or not, which would make them
objective synonyms.
10.42.95 Triplophysa shilinensis Chen & Yang, in Chen,
Yang & Xu, 1992
Triplophysa shilinensis Chen & Yang, in Chen, Yang & Xu,
1992: 17, fig. 1 (type locality: China: Yunnan: Lunan
County: cave at Weiboyi village near Shi Lin Stone Forest
[24°47'N 103°22'E; Romero et al., 2009: 263]; holotype:
KIZ 913001; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
10.42.96 Triplophysa shiyangensis (Zhao & Wang, 1983)
Nemachilus shiyangensis Zhao & Wang, 1983: 97, fig. 1
(type locality: China: Gansu: Leitai He stream near Wuwei
[37°55'N 102°38'E], Shiyang He River system, "Huang
He drainage" [in fact, Shiyang is an endorheic river
ending in Gobi desert about 39°00'N 103°35'E]; holotype:
DBLU 770582; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
10.42.97 Triplophysa siluroides (Herzenstein, 1888)
Nemachilus siluroides Herzenstein, 1888: 62, pl. 7 fig. 1,
pl. 8 fig. 10 (type locality: China: Qinghai: Chuan-che
River near Gomi [Huang He River near Balekhun Gomi,
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approx. 30°10'N 100°45'E; now flooded in Longyangxia
Reservoir]; syntypes: ZISP 7243 [1], 7244 [1], 7851 [1])
10.42.98 Triplophysa stenura (Herzenstein, 1888)
Nemachilus stenurus Herzenstein, 1888: 64, pl. 1 fig. 1 (type
locality: China: Tibet: Dy-Tschu [Tongtian He, in upper
Yangtze basin; He et al., 2008: 48]; lectotype ZISP 7355,
designated by Prokofiev, 2009a: 699; compound adjective,
-us, -a, -um)
? Nemachilus lhasae Regan, 1905b: 301 (type locality: Tibet:
Lhasa; holotype: BMNH 1905.2.8.16; noun in genitive,
indeclinable)
Taxonomic notes. Triplophysa stenura is presently reported
from the upper Yangtze, Mekong, Salween and Brahmaputra
drainages, which suggests that several species are confused
under this name.
10.42.99 Triplophysa stewarti (Hora, 1922)
Diplophysa stewarti Hora, 1922: 70, fig. 2c–d (type locality:
China: Xizang: Rham-tso [Hram Tso, Bam Tso;
28°08'52"N 89°20'02"E]; holotype: ZSI F 2894/1; noun
in genitive, indeclinable)
Nemachilus panguri Hora, 1936: 318, figs. 8–9, pl. 12 figs.
3–4 (type locality: India: Jammu & Kashmir: Ladakh:
Pangur Tso [Spanggur Tso, 33°32'N 78°55'E] / China:
Xizang: Tso Nyak [apparently at 33°29'28"N 80°18'11"E]
[both in Pangong Tso endorheic basin]; syntypes ["several"]:
ZSI F 12204/1 [2], Menon & Yazdani, 1968: 123;
noun in genitive, indeclinable)
Nemachilus longianalis Ren & Wu, 1982: 82, fig. 2 (type
locality: China: Northern Xizang: Nam Cuo Lake [? Nam
Co, Nam Tso, 30°42'N 90°33'E]; holotype: HFRI 80-
1669; compound noun, indeclinable)
Nemachilus longianalis tangtianhensis Wu & Wu, 1988a:
21, fig. 4 (type locality: China: Qinghai: mouth of Dangqu,
upper reaches of Tangtianhe River; holotype: NPIB
8606088; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
10.42.100 Triplophysa stolickai (Steindachner, 1866)
Cobitis Stoličkai Steindachner, 1866: 793, pl. 14 fig. 2 (type
locality: India: Ladakh: Rupshu: rivulets in vicinity of
Lake Tsumureri [Tso Morari] [contra Eschmeyer &
Fricke, 2010, "Umgebung" is not the name of a river but
the German word meaning vicinity]; syntypes [12]: NMW
48436 [5], 48439 [1], 50477 [4], Eschmeyer & Fricke,
2010; the č in original spelling must be emended in c,
Code art. 32.5.2.1; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
Taxonomic notes. Prokofiev (2007b: 4) recognised T. stolickai
with a number of subspecies. I do not recognise these
subspecies because the Evolutionary Species Concept used
here does not accomodate subspecies, and because these 'subspecies'
are diagnosable lineages occupying very distinct and
isolated areas and fulfill the criteria to be recognised as species.
See T. cakaensis, T. dorsonotata, T. hexiensis, T. obtusirostra,
T. retropinnis and T. uranoscopus.
10.42.101 Triplophysa strauchii (Kessler, 1874)
Diplophysa Strauchii Kessler, 1874: 58, pl. 8 fig. 40 (type
locality: Kazakhstan: Ili River, tributary of Lake Balkash /
Ich-Balya River; syntypes: ZISP 2328 [2], 2329 [1],