Conspectus cobitidum - Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research

Nemachilus barbatulus vardarensis Karaman, 1928: 164
(type locality: FYROM: Vardar River drainage; syntypes:
MMNHS, lost; also in Karaman, 1929: 173; adjective,
-is, -is, -e)
Nemacheilus barbatulus aberr. erythrinna Berg, 1933: 550
(infrasubspecific, name not available)
Nemacheilus barbatulus forma anglicana Băcescu-Mester,
1967: 369 (infrasubspecific, name not available; locality:
England: Cambridge River)
Nemacheilus barbatulus forma blackiana Băcescu-Mester,
1967: 369 (infrasubspecific, name not available; locality:
England: Black Beck River)
Taxonomic notes. Nemachilus barbatulus caucasicus is
often treated as a valid subspecies of B. barbatula, but up to
now its status does not seem to have been critically evaluated.
Nomenclatural notes. Barbatula is usually treated as an
adjective but in fact it is a noun and indeclinable.
The article with the description of N. b. caucasicus had
been issued in two versions, in Russian and in German. The
German version is sometimes dated 1898. The preface is
dated May 1899, so that publication year cannot be 1898.
10.4.3 ? Barbatula cobdonensis (Gundriser, 1973)
Nemachilus cobdonensis Gundriser, 1973: 77 (type locality:
Russia: Tuva Republic: Lakes Khintiktig-Khol
[50.35°N 89.83°E] and Ak-Khol [50°15'11"N
89°36'01"E] and Mogen-Buren River, basin of Kobdo
River [Khovd]; syntypes [36]: LU, Prokofiev, 2003a: 700;
adjective, -is, -is, -e)
Taxonomic notes. Prokofiev (2003a: 700) commented that
there are two species of nemacheilids in the Mogen Buren
system near Mugur-Aksy [50°23'N 90°26'E], one he identified
as B. toni and the other he described as B. golubtsovi.
He commented that, judging from the information in the original
description, the type series of N. cobdoensis seems to
include two species. Because the whereabouts of the type
series are not known, and because the later description and
photograph in Gundriser (1979: 27–30) do not fit with his
B. golubtsovi, he concluded that either N. cobdonensis is
identical with his B. 'toni' or belongs to a third species. As
discussed below, I consider B. toni to be restricted to the
Amur drainage. The name B. cobdonensis is available for
the B. 'toni' endemic to the Khovd drainage. This will be
fixed later by a neotype designation.
10.4.4 ? Barbatula compressirostris (Warpachowski, 1897)
Nemachilus compressirostris Warpachowski, 1897: 270, pl.
11 figs. 1–3 (type locality: Russia (?): Ob drainage, lakes
in northwestern Mongolia; syntypes: ZISP 11298 [2];
compound noun, indeclinable)
Taxonomic notes. Nemachilus compressirostris was originally
based on two specimens from "lakes in northwestern
Mongolia" in a paper on fishes of the Ob River drainage
(Warpachowski, 1897). Warpachowski also commented that
the specimens came from the same lakes as Oreoleuciscus
potanini. These specimens were obtained for the Nizhniy
Novgorod Fisheries Exhibition in 1896. It is not clear (to
me) if this was intended to mean the same lakes as the
O. potanini specimens mentioned in the same paper (p. 263:
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Russia: Altai: Kosh Agash, 50°59'30"N 88°40'00"E, in Ob
drainage) or those lakes from which O. potanini was known
in Mongolia at that time. I had earlier (Kottelat, 2006: 51,
103) concluded that the type locality was in western Mongolia,
more precisely in the Khovd basin, and that it could
potentially be a senior synonym of B. golubtsovi, which now
seems unlikely. This nominal species is considered to be a
synonym of B. toni by, e.g. Prokofiev (2007a: 17). I consider
here B. toni to be restricted to the Amur drainage. The
identity of B. compressirostris can be established only when
comparison material becomes available for all three drainages
in that area (upper Ob, upper Yenisei and Khovd). Its
identity must be tested against B. tomiana, B. markakulensis
and B. cobdoensis.
10.4.5 Barbatula dgebuadzei (Prokofiev, 2003)
Orthrias dgebuadzei Prokofiev, 2003a: 730, fig. 2 [p. 700
of translation] (type locality: Mongolia: Zag River, Baidrag-Gol
drainage; holotype: ZISP 52051; noun in genitive,
indeclinable)
10.4.6 Barbatula golubtsovi (Prokofiev, 2003)
Orthrias golubtsovi Prokofiev, 2003a: 727, fig. 1 [p. 698 of
translation] (type locality: Russia: Tuva Republic: Chedi-Tei
River, outflow of Ak-Khol Lake [50°15'11"N
89°36'01"E], Mogen-Buren drainage part of Kobdo
drainage, about 60 km west of Mugur-Aksy [50°23'N
90°26'E]; holotype: ZISP 52251; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
Taxonomic notes. Molecular data suggests this species belong
to Triplophysa (V. Šlechtová, pers. comm.).
10.4.7 ? Barbatula markakulensis (Menshikov, 1939)
Nemacheilus barbatulus markakulensis Menshikov, 1939:
141, fig. (type locality: Kazakhstan: Lake Marka-kul, Irtysh
drainage; syntypes: ZISP 26864 [6+], Eschmeyer &
Fricke, 2010; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
Taxonomic notes. See under B. toni.
10.4.8 Barbatula nuda (Bleeker, 1864)
Nemacheilus nudus Bleeker, 1864c: 12 (type locality: Mongolia
[p. 13, but 'brought from China' on p. 14; apparently
China: Hebei: Chongli County: Siwantse [Xiwanzi],
40°58'25"N 115°16'22"E; see below]; holotype: MNHN
1450, Fang, 1941: 253, Bertin & Estève, 1948: 98; adjective,
-us, -a, -um)
? Nemachilus pechiliensis Fowler, 1899: 181 (type locality:
China: Pechili: Tan Lan Ho, tributary of Shu Lan Ho,
about 30 miles northeast of Lama-Miau or Dolon-Nor
[Nei Mongol: Duolun County: Duolun-Nuur, 42°11'22"N
116°28'24"E] [Pechili [Zhili], name of a former province];
holotype: ANSP 16394 [missing, Böhlke, 1984:
63]; adjective, -is, -is, -e)
? Barbatula toni fowleri Nichols, 1925b: 3 (type locality:
China: Chihli Province: Eastern Tombs [now Hebei: Zunhua,
40°11'N 117°58'E; Chihli [Zhili], name of a former
province]; holotype: AMNH 8409; noun in genitive, indeclinable)
Barbatula stoliczkai shansi Nichols, 1925b: 6 (type locality:
China: Shansi [now in Nei Monggol]: Mai-tai-chao,