Lebias Goldfuss [G. A.] 1820:16 Masc. Lebias fasciata Valenciennes 1821. Type by subsequent designation. Not Lebia Oken (ex Cuvier). Type species designated by Lazara 1995:502 [ref. 22411] [incorrectly cited by us in 1998; type designated by Lazara is as above]. Fowler credits this spelling first to Goldfuss 1826. Comments about Aphanius vs. Lebias in Wildekamp et al. 1999:25 [ref. 26561]. Supressed for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not the Principle of Homonymy and placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology (Opinion 2057). Genus name misspelled Lebras by Cuvier 1831:206 [ref. 4881]. •Synonym of Aphanius Nardo 1827 -- (Parenti 1981:521 [ref. 7066]). •Valid as Lebias Goldfuss 1820 -- (Lazara 1995:502 [ref. 22411], Costa 1997:12 [ref. 23302], Lazara 2001:179 [ref. 25711]). •Invalid generic name -- (Huber 2005:16 [ref. 28394], Esmaeili et al. 2020:3 [ref. 37446]). Current status: Synonym of Aphanius Nardo 1827. Aphaniidae.