thoracata, Kowala Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:363 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Puducherry, India. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-3172. Paralectotypes: MNHN B-3075 [ex MNHN 0000-3172] (2). Type catalog: Bertin 1940:282 [ref. 293], Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:16 [ref. 9739]. Lectotype selected by Whitehead 1967:71 [ref. 6464]. •Valid as Escualosa thoracata (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Whitehead 1985:119 [ref. 5141], Paxton et al. 1989:153 [ref. 12442], Allen 1991:46 [ref. 21090], Allen et al. 1992:298 [ref. 21400], Kottelat et al. 1993:17 [ref. 23448], Randall 1995:66 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:103 [ref. 27969], Larson & Williams 1997:347 [ref. 23967], Munroe et al. 1999:1795 [ref. 24728], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:235 [ref. 24754], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:587 [ref. 25122], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:587 [ref. 25122], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:184 [ref. 25703], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:134 [ref. 27511], Hutchins 2001:18 [ref. 25847], Zhang 2001:65 [ref. 26586], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:6 [ref. 27710], Paxton et al. 2006:326 [ref. 28995], Kimura in Kimura & Yoshino 2009:30 [ref. 30440], Larson et al. 2013:34 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:60 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:37 [ref. 34464], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2015:18 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:152 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:40 [ref. 35490], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:34 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:67 [ref. 36495], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 7 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:289 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:63 [ref. 39830], Anderson 2022:144 [ref. 39690]). Current status: Valid as Escualosa thoracata (Valenciennes 1847). Dorosomatidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Oman east Papua New Guinea, north to Philippines, south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.