Conspectus cobitidum - Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research

1.1.1 Gyrinocheilus aymonieri, CMK 22815, 80.5 mm SL; Laos:
Mekong drainage: Nam Theun.
1.1.1 Gyrinocheilus aymonieri, CMK 22799, 128 mm SL.
correct spelling it is not available. Nalbant (2004: 270)
claimed that the name in prevailing usage (Hymenophysa)
should be maintained under Code art. 33.3.1. Nalbant interpreted
Hymenphysa and Hymenophysa as two different
names and therefore art. 33.3.1 is irrelevant since it applies
only in cases of alternative spellings of a name, and not in
case of alternative names for a taxon.
Even though Hymenophysa is not a distinct name but an
incorrect subsequent spelling of Hymenphysa, Code art.
33.3.1 could not be used the way interpreted by Nalbant.
This article states that an incorrect subsequent spelling has
to be preserved when it is "in prevailing usage and attributed
to the publication of the original spelling". Nalbant wished
to retain Hymenophysa as spelt by Bleeker [supposed prevailing
usage], and to use it for the genus called here Syncrossus,
without attributing it to M'Clelland [original spelling]
but to Bleeker (1858). Anyway, even if the spelling
Hymenophysa had been attributed to M'Clelland, the type
species remains Cobitis dario and the result remains that
Hymenophysa is a junior synonym of Botia and cannot be
used instead of Syncrossus. Further, Hymenophysa having
almost never been used as the valid name of a genus, it is
difficult to qualify it as 'prevailing usage'.
2.2.1 Botia almorhae Gray, 1831
Botia Almorhae Gray, 1831b: 8 (type locality: India: Uttarakhand:
Almorah; holotype: BMNH 2002.9.18.1, Kullander
et al., 1999: 137, Grant, 2007a: fig. 30; noun in genitive,
indeclinable)
Botia grandis Gray, 1832: vol. 1, pl. 94 fig. 3 (type locality:
India: Uttarakhand: Almorah [29°37'12"N 79°40'12"E];
holotype: BMNH 2002.9.18.1; objective junior synonym
of Botia almorhae Gray, 1831b: 8; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
Schistura maculata M'Clelland, 1839: 307 (unnecessary replacement
name for Botia grandis Gray, 1832: vol. 1, pl.
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2.1.1. Ambastaia nigrolineata; top: CMK16043, 32.8 mm SL;
Thailand: Chao Phraya drainage: Nan; bottom: CMK 21861, 65.1
mm SL; Laos: Mekong drainage: Xekong.
94 fig. 3; adjective, -us, -a, -um)
Botia Blythi Bleeker, 1863a: 39 (type locality: India: Uttarakhand:
Almorah [29°37'12"N 79°40'12"E]; syntypes:
BMNH 2002.9.18.1 [1], ZSI ?; available by indication
to Schistura grandis of M'Clelland, 1839: 307, 444 and
Syncrossus grandis of Blyth, 1860: 165; actually, C. grandis
of M'Clelland is a new combination of Botia grandis
Gray, 1832; M'Clelland's description is exclusively based
on drawing in Gray, 1832; Blyth's record is based on a
specimen from Almorah; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
2.2.2 Botia birdi Chaudhuri, 1910
Botia birdi Chaudhuri, 1910a: 339 (type locality: India:
Ambala: Rupar [Rupnagar, 30°57'59"N 76°31'59"E],
where Sirhind Canal diverges from Sutlej River, Indus
River drainage; syntypes: ZSI F 3578–3580/1 [3], Menon
& Yazdani, 1968: 120; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
Botia javedi Mirza & Syed, 1995: 379, fig. (type locality:
Pakistan: Michni, 34°11'N 71°28'E, about 24 km north
of Peshawar, Kabul River system, Indus River drainage;
holotype: GCMNH 17F; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
2.2.3 Botia dario (Hamilton, 1822)
Cobitis dario Hamilton, 1822: 354, 394, pl. 29 fig. 95 (type
locality: India: "northern rivers of Bengal" [Bangladesh:
Dumdumma, Dinajpur District, 25°37'N 88°38'E; Hora,
1935a: 49]; types: NT; noun in apposition, indeclinable)
Cobitis geto Hamilton, 1822: 355, 394, pl. 11 fig. 96 (type
locality: India: "north-eastern parts of Bengal" [Goalpara;
Hora, 1935a: 49]; simultaneous subjective synonym of
Cobitis dario Hamilton, 1822: 354; first reviser [Günther,
1868: 366] gave precedence to C. dario; types: NT; noun
in apposition, indeclinable)
Canthophrys flavicauda Swainson, 1839: 310 (available by
indication to Hamilton, 1822: pl. 29 fig. 95 [which is
Cobitis dario]; type locality: India: "northern rivers of
Bengal" [Bangladesh: Dumdumma, Dinajpur District,
25°37'N 88°38'E; Hora, 1935a: 49]; types: NT; compound
noun, indeclinable)
Canthophrys zebra Swainson, 1839: 310 (available by indication
to Hamilton, 1822: pl. 11 fig. 96 [which is Cobitis
geto]; type locality: India: "north-eastern parts of Ben-