montana, Homaloptera Herre [A. W. C. T.] 1945:400 [Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences v. 35 (no. 12); ref. 2141] Puthutotam Estate, brook in Anamallai Hills, southern India, elevation about 3600 feet. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 39871. Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:40 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Homaloptera montana Herre 1945 -- (Menon 1987:226 [ref. 14149], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:452 [ref. 20764], Pethiyagoda & Kottelat 1994:110 [ref. 21421], Shaji & Easa 1995:397 [ref. 22479], Kottelat 1998:271 [ref. 23656], Selim & Vishwanath 1998:352 [ref. 24983], Menon 1999:192 [ref. 24904], Arunkumar 1999:178 [ref. 24921], Arunachalam et al. 2002:31 [ref. 26804], Shrestha 2008:127 [ref. 29923], Kurup & Radhakrishnan 2011:224 [ref. 31584], Kottelat 2012:49 [ref. 32367] in 'Homaloptera'). •Valid as Ghatsa montana (Herre 1945) -- (Randall & Page 2015:79, 81 [ref. 33701], Bleher 2018:106 [ref. 36647], Sidhartan et al. 2021:81 [ref. 38132]). Current status: Valid as Ghatsa montana (Herre 1945). Balitoridae. Distribution: South Asia: Chalakudy and Bharathapuzha River drainages, Western Ghats (southern India). Habitat: freshwater.