Alburnoides holciki Coad and Bogutskaya, 2012 Alburnoides holciki Coad and Bogutskaya, 2012: 44. Type locality: Hari River at Herat, Afghanistan. REFERENCES FOR TAJIKISTAN: Alburnus bipunctatus — Berg (1905: 162): Amu Darya basin. Alburnoides bipunctatus eichwaldi — Nikolskiy (1938: 134), Berg (1949: 760): tributaries of Amu Darya, Zeravshan; Shaposhnikova (1950: map): foothill zone of Amu Darya basin. DISTRIBUTION IN TAJIKISTAN: Widely spread in the plains and foothill zones of rivers of Amu Darya and Zeravshan basins (localities 6, 8, 9, 10, 14–16, 17, 19, 20, 25, 28, 31). CONSERVATION STATUS IN TAJIKISTAN: Not known; not known (sensu IUCN). SPECIMENS EXAMINED: IBIW_FS (n = 39) (Artaev et al., 2024). FMNH: 151131, 151196, 151122, 151128, 151136, 151137, 151147, 151151, 151160, 151167, 151175–78, 151189, 151200. 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. COMMENTS: Analysis of genetic and morphological data showed that this previously unknown species from Tajikistan rivers belongs to the recently described species Alburnoides holciki (Levin et al., 2019a).

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 19, DOI: 10.1206/4032.1, http://zenodo.org/record/20514623