ruconius, Chanda Hamilton [F.] 1822:106, 371, Pl. 12 (fig. 35) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River estuaries, India. No types known. See comments in Chakrabarty et al. 2009:151 [ref. 30295] on taxonomic status. Uncertain in Deveximentum?. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 60 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Secutor ruconius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Monkolprasit 1973:13 [ref. 7378], Jones 1985:608 [ref. 21842], Smith 1986:621 [ref. 5712], Allen & Swainston 1988:76 [ref. 25477] as ruconis, Ataur Rahman 1989:334 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:833 [ref. 20764], Goren & Dor 1994:36 [ref. 25356], Rainboth 1996:185 [ref. 22772], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:351 [ref. 27969], Larson & Williams 1997:359 [ref. 23967], Allen 1997:118 [ref. 23977], Fricke 1999:259 [ref. 24106], Mishra et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25315], Woodland in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Woodland et al. 2001:2822 [ref. 26095], Khan 2003:9 [ref. 27710], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:34 [ref. 27712], Ataur Rahman 2003:363 [ref. 31338], Adrim et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:241 [ref. 28239], Chakrabarty et al. 2008:150 [ref. 32414], Chakrabarty et al. 2009:150 [ref. 30295] with author as Hamilton-Buchannan, Chakrabarty et al. 2010:119 [ref. 31090], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:71 [ref. 35264], Abraham et al. 2011:15 [ref. 31311], Baldwin & Sparks 2011:39 [ref. 31487], Allen & Erdmann 2012:443 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2018:192 [ref. 35805], Khalevi & Alavi-Yeganeh 2020:496 [ref. 37985], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 22 [ref. 38321], Allen & Erdmann 2024:470 [ref. 40796]). •Valid as Leiognathus ruconius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Cheng & Zhou 1997:295 [ref. 26385], Kottelat 2013:340 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Deveximentum ruconius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Chakrabarty & Sparks 2022:418 [ref. 39869]). Current status: Valid as Deveximentum ruconius (Hamilton 1822). Leiognathidae: Leiognathinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Mascarenes and Persian Gulf east to Mariana Islands, north to Taiwan, south to Western Australia and Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
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