mahecola, Leuciscus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1844:305, Pl. 502 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 17; ref. 1010] Mahé, Kerala, India. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-3896. Paralectotypes: MNHN 2005-0007 (5). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:27 [ref. 19574]. •Mention under Puntius filamentosus (Valenciennes 1844) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:270 [ref. 20764]). •Synonym of Puntius filamentosus (Valenciennes 1844) -- (Menon 1999:92 [ref. 24904]). •Valid as Puntius mahecola (Valenciennes 1844) -- (Selvaraj & Abraham 1987:20 [ref. 19846], Indra 1991:238 [ref. 24005], Rema Devi et al. 1996:133 [ref. 24021], Zacharias et al. 1996:40 [ref. 25526], Pethiyagoda & Kottelat 2005:146 [ref. 28275], Silva et al. 2008:60 [ref. 29719], Abraham 2011:1591 [ref. 31231], Krishnakumar et al. 2012:32 [ref. 31807], Krishnakumar et al. 2012:32 [ref. 31807], Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:73 [ref. 32071], Plamoottil 2014:140 [ref. 33650], Plamoottil 2016:5 [ref. 34781], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172], Bleher 2018:716 [ref. 36647], Plamoottil 2019:717 [ref. 37157], Plamoottil & Johnson 2020:96 [ref. 37958], Ren et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37805], Plamoottil & Vineeth 2020:101 [ref. 38032]). Current status: Valid as Puntius mahecola (Valenciennes 1844). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: Kerala and Tamil Nadu (southern India). Habitat: freshwater.