melanampyx, Labeo Day [F.] 1865:298 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865 (pt 1); ref. 5295] Mundikyum, Kerala, India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.7556 (1, non-type); BMNH 1864.7.9.7 (1) Travancore, 1975.9.30.2-3 (2); RMNH 2720 (1), 4948 (1), 8671 (1); ZSI F2719 (1). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:115 [ref. 20743] as holotype, Whitehead & Talwar 1976:155 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:299 [ref. 25110]. Also appeared in Day 1865:210, Pl. 16, fig. 1 [ref. 1074]. •Valid as Labeo melanampyx Day 1865 -- (Indra 1991:238 [ref. 24005] as malanampyx, Indra 1993:183 [ref. 24009], Arunachalam et al. 1998:129 [ref. 24986]). •Synonym of Puntius fasciatus (Jerdon 1849) -- (Silas 1956:194 [ref. 12225], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:269 [ref. 20764]). •Valid as Puntius melanampyx (Day 1865) -- (Rema Devi et al. 1996:133 [ref. 24021], Zacharias et al. 1996:40 [ref. 25526], Menon 1999:96 [ref. 24904], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:49 [ref. 26359], Kullander & Fang 2005:297 [ref. 28193], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172]). •Valid as Dravidia melanampyx (Day 1865) -- (Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:78 [ref. 32071]). •Valid as Haludaria melanampyx (Day 1865) -- (Pethiyagoda 2013:199 [ref. 32691], Bleher 2018:550 [ref. 36647], Ren et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37805]). Current status: Valid as Haludaria melanampyx (Day 1865). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: southern Peninsular India. Habitat: freshwater.