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SU 14123 Pimelodus pangasius Hamilton [F.], 1822 Neotype  [Collection database record]
pangasius, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:163, 376, Pl. 33 (fig. 52) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River, Calcutta, India. Neotype: CAS-SU 14123. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:327 [ref. 29155]. See Bagarius luridus Swainson 1839. Neotype designated by Gustiano 2003:186 [ref. 31337]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 91 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Pangasius pangasius (Hamilton 1822) -- (David 1962:137 [ref. 5867], Burgess 1989:105 [ref. 12860], Roberts & Vidthayanon 1991:134 [ref. 19239], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:613 [ref. 20764], Rainboth 1996:156 [ref. 22772], Pouyaud et al. 1999:254 [ref. 24245], Menon 1999:230 [ref. 24904], Pouyaud & Teugels 2000:198 [ref. 25066], Karmakar 2000:33 [ref. 25662] as pangassius, Yadav 2000:41 [ref. 25661], Khan 2003:8 [ref. 27710], Gustiano 2003:186 [ref. 31337], Ataur Rahman 2003:199 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:148 [ref. 28762], Ferraris 2007:327 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:162 [ref. 29923], Kottelat 2013:255 [ref. 32989], Dwivedi et al. 2017:366 [ref. 35286], Suresh et al. 2018:129 [ref. 36495], Ayyathurai et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39794], as pangaisus). Current status: Valid as Pangasius pangasius (Hamilton 1822). Pangasiidae. Distribution: Southern Asia: Ganga-Brahmaputra basin, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Irrawaddy basin, Myanmar; also widely introduced. Habitat: freshwater.
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