Abstract
Boguckaâ & Coad (2009: 138) recognized Alburnoides kubanicus as a valid species in the genus Alburnoides Jeitteles (1861: 325), attributing it to Berg (1932a). We show below that Berg (1932a) did not describe the species and discuss the proper authorship of the name.
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