filamentosus, Leuciscus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1844:96, Pl. 492 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 17; ref. 1010] Alleppey [now Alappuzha, situated between Vembanad Lake (a brackish estuary) and the Arabian Sea, 9°20'N, 76°25'E, Kerala State, southwestern India]. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-3908. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-3908 (9). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:27 [ref. 19574]. Lectotype established by Pethiyagoda & Kottelat 2005:129 [ref. 28274]. •Valid as Puntius filamentosa or filamentosus (Valenciennes 1844) -- (Selvaraj & Abraham 1987:20 [ref. 19846], Pethiyagoda 1991:104 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:270 [ref. 20764], Indra 1991:238 [ref. 24005], Indra 1993:184 [ref. 24009], Indra 1994:415 [ref. 24015], Zacharias et al. 1996:40 [ref. 25526], Manimekalan 1998:435 [ref. 24989], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:153 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi et al. 1999:157 [ref. 24758], Menon 1999:92 [ref. 24904], Fuller et al. 1999:142 [ref. 25838], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:49 [ref. 26359], Yadav 2003:12 [ref. 27711], Pethiyagoda & Kottelat 2005:129 [ref. 28274], Pethiyagoda & Kottelat 2005:151 [ref. 28275], Rema Devi et al. 2010:1121 [ref. 30982], Knight et al. 2011:1690 [ref. 31267], Remya et al. 2013:46 [ref. 37136], Narasimhaiah et al. 2016:69 [ref. 34975]). •Valid as Dawkinsia filamentosa (Valenciennes 1844) -- (Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:80 [ref. 32071], Raghavan et al. 2013:4936 [ref. 32992], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172], Bleher 2018:420 [ref. 36647], Katwate et al. 2020:230 [ref. 37497], Ren et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37805] as filamentosus, Katwate et al. 2020:725 [ref. 37975], Sudasinghe et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38706], Chan et al. 2023:136 [ref. 40365]). Current status: Valid as Dawkinsia filamentosa (Valenciennes 1844). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: southern Western Ghats (southern India). Introduced in Hong Kong (China). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.