Plotosus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1803:129 Masc. Platystacus anguillaris Bloch 1794. Type by monotypy. Variously spelled Plotosis, Plotoseus, and Plotosius in early literature. See van Oijen et al. 2009:272 [ref. 30423]. •Valid as Plotosus Lacepède 1803 -- (Jayaram 1981:284 [ref. 6497], Gomon & Taylor 1982 [ref. 8475], Sawada in Masuda et al. 1984:60 [ref. 6441], Gomon 1986:213 [ref. 6286], Taylor & Gomon 1986:160 [ref. 6196], Burgess 1989:180 [ref. 12860], Kottelat 1989:15 [ref. 13605], Paxton et al. 1989:225 [ref. 12442], Ataur Rahman 1989:173 [ref. 24860], Wu & Zhong in Pan et al. 1991:293 [ref. 23876], Allen 1991:66 [ref. 21090], Allen & Feinberg 1998:11 [ref. 23371], Dai in Chu et al. 1999:189 [ref. 24534], Ferraris 1999:1881 [ref. 24731], Ng & Sparks 2002:564 [ref. 26377], Ataur Rahman 2003:192 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:320 [ref. 28762], Murdy & Ferraris 2006:77 [ref. 28937], Hoese & Gates 2006:363 [ref. 28997], Ferraris 2007:350 [ref. 29155], Yoshino & Kishimoto 2008:1 [ref. 29565], Prokofiev 2008:671 [ref. 29826], Fricke et al. 2009:23 [ref. 30213], Yoshino & Kimura 2009:32 [ref. 30443], Kottelat 2013:240 [ref. 32989], Motomura et al. 2017:48 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:59 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:37 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:57 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Plotosus Lacepède 1803. Plotosidae.