Barbatula Linck [H. F.] 1790:38 Fem. Cobitis barbatula Linnaeus 1758. Type by absolute tautonymy. See Kottelat 1990:18 [ref. 14137] for remarks on type and availability. Linck 1790:38 [ref. 4985] described the new genus Barbatula mentioning 'Hierher gehören Cobitis Barbatula Taenia', meaning that two species were included, Cobitis barbatula and Cobitis taenia; barbatula is the type due to absolute tautonymy (ICZN Art. 68.4). See also Nalbant & Bianco 1998:110 [ref. 23810] but their interpretation is inaccurate. •In the synonymy of Orthrias Jordan & Fowler 1903 -- (Prokofiev 2007:12 [ref. 30343], Prokofiev 2010:893 [ref. 31096]). •Valid as Barbatula Linck 1790 -- (Zhu 1989:26 [ref. 17744], Kottelat 1990:18 [ref. 14137], Wu & Wu 1992:136 [ref. 21205], Vasil'eva 1998:94 [ref. 23591], Sideleva 2001:54 [ref. 26181], Sideleva 2003:11 [ref. 27815], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:111 [ref. 28183], Economidis 2005:67 [ref. 28213], Erk'akan et al. 2007:69 [ref. 29026], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:328 [ref. 29996], Coad 2010:205 [ref. 36620], Freyhof et al. 2012:301 [ref. 31752], Kottelat 2012:77 [ref. 32367], Parin et al. 2014:102 [ref. 33547], Prokofiev 2015:457 [ref. 34065], Zhang et al. 2016:127 [ref. 34477], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:669 [ref. 34853], Prokofiev 2016:655 [ref. 35025], Prokofiev 2017:136, 148 [ref. 35630], Norén et al. 2018:58 [ref. 35742], Prokofiev 2018:267 [ref. 35878], Chen et al. 2019:1 [ref. 36569], Gauliard et al. 2019:169 [ref. 36787], An et al. 2021:121 [ref. 38850]). Current status: Valid as Barbatula Linck 1790. Nemacheilidae.