nehereus, Osmerus Hamilton [F.] 1822:209, 380 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Botanical Garden of Calcutta, Ganges River estuary, India. No types known. Spelled neherius on p. 380. Originally "Osmerus?". Information on type locality see Britz 2019:42 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 118 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Harpadon nehereus (Hamilton 1822) -- (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:62 [ref. 6441], Ataur Rahman 1989:71 [ref. 24860], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:154 [ref. 27969] with author as Hamilton-Buchanan, Chen et al. 1997:18 [ref. 26476], Russell 1999:1936 [ref. 24747], Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315], Nakabo 2000:351 [ref. 25086], Russell in Randall & Lim 2000:592 [ref. 25122], Chen 2002:83 [ref. 26587], Nakabo 2002:351 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:200, 533 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S98 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:8 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:86 [ref. 31338], Kottelat 2013:270 [ref. 32989], Psomadakis et al. 2015:168 [ref. 34104], Ganga et al. 2016:3 [ref. 34160], Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:53 [ref. 36460], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:26 [ref. 37828], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 8 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:67 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:312 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:308 [ref. 39830], Russell 2022:211 [ref. 39701], Choi et al. 2023:[3] [ref. 40657]). Current status: Valid as Harpadon nehereus (Hamilton 1822). Synodontidae: Harpadontinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India east to Solomon Islands, north to southern Korea and southern Japan. Habitat: brackish, marine.