Arius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:53 Masc. Pimelodus arius Hamilton 1822. Type by absolute tautonymy. See van Oijen et al. 2009:56 [ref. 30423]. Arias is a misspelling. •Valid as Arius Valenciennes 1840 -- (Sawada in Masuda et al. 1984:60 [ref. 6441], Taylor 1986:153 [ref. 6195], Kailola 1986 [ref. 6312], Burgess 1989:168 [ref. 12860], Paxton et al. 1989:218 [ref. 12442], Kottelat 1989:15 [ref. 13605], Roberts 1989:110 [ref. 6439], Kailola 1990:4 [ref. 19337], Lu in Pan et al. 1991:323 [ref. 23876], Allen 1991:49 [ref. 21090], Daget in Lévêque et al. 1992:564 [ref. 21590], Dai in Chu et al. 1999:184 [ref. 24534], Kailola 1999:1828 [ref. 24732], Kailola 2000:127 [ref. 25113], Acero P. 2003:835 [ref. 26998], Ng 2003:1 [ref. 27208], Marceniuk & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:447 [ref. 27061], Ataur Rahman 2003:254 [ref. 31338] as Arias, Kailola 2004:126 [ref. 28108], Jayaram 2006:333 [ref. 28762], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:13 [ref. 29031], Ferraris 2007:34 [ref. 29155], Vreven & De Vos 2007:573 [ref. 30015], Kimura 2009:33 [ref. 30426], Marceniuk & Birindelli 2010:61 [ref. 30960], Marceniuk et al. 2012:638 [ref. 32225], Kottelat 2013:245 [ref. 32989], Motomura et al. 2017:47 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:61 [ref. 35805], Marceniuk et al. 2023:27 [ref. 40422]). Current status: Valid as Arius Valenciennes 1840. Ariidae: Ariinae.