Luciobarbus brachycephalus (Kessler, 1872) Barbus brachycephalus Kessler, 1872: 52. Type locality: Syr Darya River, central Asia. REFERENCES FOR TAJIKISTAN: Barbus brachycephalus — Berg (1905: 65): Syr Darya; Nikolskiy (1938: 112): Syr Darya and Amu Darya; Berg (1949: 705): Amu Darya up to Somoni (Faizabadkala); Shaposhnikova (1950: map): flat zone and lower part of foothill zone of Amu Darya basin; Rasulov and Karimov (2014: 39): Kairakkum reservoir. DISTRIBUTION IN TAJIKISTAN: Syr Darya including Kairakkum reservoir, Amu Darya with lower reaches of Vakhsh, possibly in Kafirnigan, and Kyzylsu Rivers. CONSERVATION STATUS IN TAJIKISTAN: Vulnerable (Saidov, 2017); vulnerable (sensu IUCN; Freyhof and Kottelat, 2008b). SPECIMENS EXAMINED: In 2003–2018, specimens were caught (not preserved) in the floodplain lakes and the riverbed of the lower reaches of the Vakhsh River in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve.

Published as part of Artaev, Oleg, Thoni, Ryan, Mirzoev, Nuriddin & Levin, Boris, 2025, Ichthyofauna of Tajikistan: Diversity and Changes over the Past Century, pp. 1-56 in American Museum Novitates 2025 (4032) on page 13, DOI: 10.1206/4032.1, http://zenodo.org/record/20514623