Heteropneustes Müller [J.] 1840:115 Masc. Silurus fossilis Bloch 1794. Type by monotypy. Appeared first as above; then in Müller 1841:243 [ref. 3061]. Heteropneustes and Saccobranchus were described in the same year, but the individual dates are uncertain (Kottelat 2013:245 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Heteropneustes Müller 1840 -- (Jayaram 1981:273 [ref. 6497], Burgess 1989:150 [ref. 12860], Kottelat 1989:15 [ref. 13605], Ataur Rahman 1989:170 [ref. 24860], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:114 [ref. 24762], Diogo et al. 2003:379 [ref. 27438], Ataur Rahman 2003:189 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:313 [ref. 28762], Ferraris 2007:151 [ref. 29155], Coad 2010:216 [ref. 36620], Hossain et al. 2013:259 [ref. 33105], Kottelat 2013:244 [ref. 32989], Kottelat 2013:244 [ref. 32989], Ratmuangkwang et al. 2014:82 [ref. 33559], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:890 [ref. 34062], Zhang et al. 2016:181 [ref. 34477], Esmaeili et al. 2017:75 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:55 [ref. 36089], Plamoottil 2021:87 [ref. 38923]). Current status: Valid as Heteropneustes Müller 1840. Heteropneustidae.