Conspectus cobitidum - Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research

10.3.1 Afronemacheilus abyssinicus, 39.7 mm SL; Ethiopia: Lake
Tana: Blue Nile source. (Photograph by Alexander Golubtsov).
10.4 Barbatula Linck, 1790
Barbatula Linck, 1790: 38 (type species: Cobitis barbatula
Linnaeus, 1758: 303, by absolute tautonymy). Gender
feminine.
Cobites Swainson, 1839: 190, 310 (type species: Cobitis
barbatula Linnaeus, 1758: 303, by monotypy). Gender
feminine.
Orthrias Jordan & Fowler, 1903: 769 (type species: Orthrias
oreas Jordan & Fowler, 1903: 769, by original designation).
Gender masculine.
Nomenclatural notes. Bis repetita placent. Linck (1790)
proposed a classification of fishes based on teeth. He split
the Cobitis of previous authors into two genera: Cobitis and
Barbatula. Linck used the binominal system and Barbatula
is clearly intended as a generic name. Linck included a single
species in Cobitis (C. heteroclita, p. 33) and two species
in Barbatula (C. barbatula, C. taenia). Although there is no
generic diagnosis, the name is available by indication [Code
art. 12.2.5] as two available names are included. Linck wrote:
"Barbatula. Hierher gehören Cobitis Barbatula Taenia"
[Barbatula. Here belong [plural] Cobitis Barbatula Taenia].
Some have argued that "Cobitis Barbatula Taenia" means
that only one species was included, that this species is
C. taenia and that C. taenia is type species of Barbatula.
This is erroneous. Linck used "gehören" [belong], which is
a plural and means that the subject of the verb is a plural,
thus that he placed more than one species in Barbatula, and
that these species are barbatula and taenia. If he had included
a single species he would have used the singular "gehört"
[belongs]. Therefore C. barbatula is type species of Barbatula
by absolute tautonymy.
Today, "Cobitis Barbatula Taenia" may appear as a
strange combination but not in the context of the late 18 th
century, when there were no nomenclature rules, when writing
was less formalised, and when typographical or typesetting
errors were not rare.
Some authors have attributed the authorship of Barbatula
to Jordan (1917: 49). As seen from the above, this is not
correct. In addition, a 'Barbatula Jordan, 1917' would be a
junior homonym of Barbatula Lesson, 1837: 292 (in Aves)
and is not available (Some authors refer to Lesson, 1831:
164 but Barbatula is not used in that work, only the vernacular
name 'barbion').
10.4.1 Barbatula altayensis Zhu, 1992
Barbatula altayensis Zhu, 1992: 241, figs. 1–2 (type locality:
China: Xinjiang: Kelang He, tributary of Ertix He [Irtysh],
near Altay City, 47°52'N 88°06'E; holotype: NGI
888006; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
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10.4.2 Barbatula barbatula, CMK 16892, 56.8 mm SL; Switzerland:
Jura: Rhône drainage.
10.4.13 Barbatula sturanyi, CMK 19463, 45.4 mm SL.
10.4.2 Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cobitis Barbatula Linnaeus, 1758: 303 (based on specimens
and Artedi [1738: gen. 2 [4], syn. 2, Cobitis tota glabra
...] and Linnaeus [1746: 125, n. 332, idem]; type locality:
Europae, Asiae, aquis dulcibus; syntypes: NRM 68 [3],
Fernholm & Wheeler, 1983: 282 [listed as non-types],
Lundberg & Svanberg, 2010: 157, fig. 4; noun in apposition,
indeclinable [species names with capitalized initial
in Linnaeus (1758) are nouns])
Cobitis Barbatula Parisiensis La Pylaie, 1835: 534 (nomen
nudum; locality: France: Paris)
Cobitis Barbatula Pictava La Pylaie, 1835: 534 (nomen
nudum; locality: France)
Cobitis furstenbergii Bonaparte, 1846: 26 (nomen nudum;
locality: eastern Germany [probably now Poland])
Cobitis Fürstenbergii Heckel & Kner, 1858: 301 (cited in
synonymy, name not available; author indicated as "Fitzinger
(Prodr. Faun. Austr.)", which apparently is Fitzinger
[1832], but the name does not appear in this work)
Cobitis pironae Nardo, 1866: 143 (type locality: Italy: Basso
Friuli; type material: NT ?; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
Cobitis variabilis Günther, 1868: 355 (on a label in collection,
listed in synonymy, name not available; locality:
Czechia: Moravia)
Nemachilus barbatulus var. taurica Kessler, 1877: 171, 271
(type locality: Ukraine: Crimea: Salgir River; syntypes:
ZISP 3029 [3], 3032 [3], Eschmeyer & Fricke, 2010;
adjective, -us, -a, -um)
? Nemachilus barbatulus caucasicus Berg, 1899: 26, 67 (type
locality: Russia: Chechnya: Argun River, a tributary of
Terek; types: LU; adjective, -us, -a, -um)