microlepis, Abramis De Filippi [F.] 1863:393 [Archivio per la Zoologia, l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia v. 2; ref. 18082] Kura River near Tiflis [T'bilisi], Georgia, Eurasia. Holotype (unique): MZUT 673. Type catalog: Tortonese 1940:140 [ref. 21559]. Also in De Filippi 1865:358 [ref. 13943]. Preoccupied by Alburnus microlepis Heckel 1843 when both are placed in Alburnus. Replaced by Alburnus punctulatus Kessler 1877. Abramis microlepis is in prevailing usage and reinstated according to ICZN Art. 59.3. •Valid as Abramis microlepis De Filippi 1863 -- (Berg 1949:753 [ref. 20661]). •Valid as Acanthalburnus microlepis (De Filippi 1863) -- (Coad 1991:13 [ref. 15702], Coad 1995:10 [ref. 23608], Coad 1996:84 [ref. 25304], Bogutskaya 1997:162 [ref. 23566], Coad 1998:102 [ref. 23869], Gabrielyan 2001:26 [ref. 25867], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:166 [ref. 31251]). •Valid as Acanthobrama microlepis (De Filippi 1863) -- (Perea et al. 2010:15 [ref. 31802], Esmaeili et al. 2010:367 [ref. 33391], Küçük et al. 2014:96 [ref. 33414], Freyhof & Özulug 2014:1 [ref. 33504], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:860 [ref. 34062], Çiçek et al. 2015:145 [ref. 35151], Esmaeili et al. 2017:31 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:11 [ref. 36089], Çiçek et al. 2020:250 [ref. 37644], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:110 [ref. 37983], Kaya et al. 2020:332 [ref. 37582], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Çiçek et al. 2023:382 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2024:197 [ref. 40789]). 2°Homonym. Current status: Valid as Acanthobrama microlepis (De Filippi 1863). Leuciscidae: Leuciscinae. Distribution: Distribution: Eurasia: Kura-Aras River basin, Caspian Sea basin (Georgia, Iran and Turkey). Habitat: freshwater.