pleurotaenia, Puntius (Barbodes) Bleeker [P.] 1863:242 [Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde. v. 15; ref. 17011] Sri Lanka. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Also appeared in Bleeker 1864:13, Pl. 3 (fig. 2) [ref. 13925]. •Valid as Puntius pleurotaenia Bleeker 1863 -- (Pethiyagoda 1991:111 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:279 [ref. 20764], Silva et al. 2008:62 [ref. 29719]). •Valid as Systomus pleurotaenia (Bleeker 1863) -- (Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:77 [ref. 32071], Ren et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37805], Sudasinghe et al. 2020:[4] [ref. 37737]). Current status: Valid as Systomus pleurotaenia (Bleeker 1863). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: southwestern Sri Lanka. Habitat: freshwater.