Balitora Gray [J. E.] 1830:Pl. 88 (v. 1) Fem. Balitora brucei Gray 1830. Type by monotypy. Kottelat 1988 [ref. 13379] and 1989 [ref. 13605] regards Balitoridae Swainson 1839 as the valid name for the family, predating Homalopteridae Bleeker 1859; this was upheld in ICZN Opinion 1715 in 1993. •Valid as Balitora Gray 1830 -- (Silas 1953:205 [ref. 4024], Menon et al. 1978 [ref. 6801], Chen 1978:335 [ref. 6900], Jayaram 1981:143 [ref. 6497], Sawada 1982:204 [ref. 14111], Zheng & Zhang 1983:65 [ref. 21356], Kottelat 1985:267 [ref. 11441], Menon 1987:228 [ref. 14149], Kottelat 1988:489 [ref. 13379], Kottelat & Chu 1988:188 [ref. 13491], Kottelat 1989:12 [ref. 13605], Doi 1997:26 [ref. 22832], Chen in Chen 1998:265 [ref. 23556], Tang & Chen 2000:8 [ref. 25445], Chen & Tang in Yue et al. 2000:522 [ref. 25272], Nguyen & Nguyen 2002:10 [ref. 26611], Conway & Mayden 2010:1466 [ref. 30776], Wang et al. 2010:26 [ref. 30898], Bhoite et al. 2011:3038 [ref. 32191], Liu et al. 2012:369, 375 [ref. 31548], Kottelat 2012:44 [ref. 32367], Raghavan et al. 2013:3921 [ref. 32564], Kottelat 2013:185 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:164 [ref. 34477], Kumar et al. 2016:155 [ref. 34540], Luo et al. 2023:21 [ref. 40608]). Current status: Valid as Balitora Gray 1830. Balitoridae.