cynoglossus, Achirus Hamilton [F.] 1822:132, 373 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River tidal mouths, India. Syntypes: ? BMNH 1860.3.19.434-435 (skins). Based on an unpublished drawing, reproduced by Hora 1929:Pl. 19 (figs. 2-3); also reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 77 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Cynoglossus cynoglossus (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1977:68 [ref. 7071], Ataur Rahman 1989:32 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:1041 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:169 [ref. 23448], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:600 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:223 [ref. 22772], Evseenko 1998:61 [ref. 23643], Munroe in Randall & Lim 2000:646 [ref. 25122], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:187 [ref. 25703], Munroe 2001:3898 [ref. 26314], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S123 [ref. 27377], Ataur Rahman 2003:47 [ref. 31338], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:217 [ref. 27510], Khan 2003:11 [ref. 27710], Matsuura in Matsuura & Kimura 2009:323 [ref. 31170], Kottelat 2013:466 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:222 [ref. 34464], Matsuura in Kimura et al. 2015:96 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:329 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2017:84 [ref. 35160], Motomura et al. 2017:227 [ref. 35490], Matsuura in Kimura et al. 2018:300 [ref. 36460], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 12 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:599 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:493 [ref. 39830], Allen & Erdmann 2024:1365 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Cynoglossus cynoglossus (Hamilton 1822). Cynoglossidae: Cynoglossinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan east to Philippines, north to northern Vietnam. Habitat: brackish, marine.