canius, Cyprinus Hamilton [F.] 1822:320, 390 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Pond in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India. Neotype: ZSI.SRC F.8732. Neotype designated by Knight 2013:176 [ref. 32828]. Information on type locality (originally Gualpara, Assam, India) see Britz 2019:46 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 191 [ref. 37532]. •Synonym of Puntius gelius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:94 [ref. 24904]). •Synonym of Pethia gelius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:81 [ref. 32071] based on placment of gelius). •Valid as Pethia canius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Knight 2013:173 [ref. 32828], Katwate et al. 2014:244 [ref. 33433], Shangningam & Vishwanath 2018:591 [ref. 35803], Bleher 2018:656 [ref. 36647], Shangningam et al. 2020:332 [ref. 37259], Shangningam & Kosygin 2023:18 [ref. 39886]). Current status: Valid as Pethia canius (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: Ganga-Brahmaputra basin, West Bengal, India. Habitat: freshwater.