kelaartii, Ophiocephalus Günther [A.] 1861:472 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Sri Lanka. Syntypes: (at least 12) BMNH 1852.2.19.106 (1), 1858.10.19.108. •Synonym of Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:1019 [ref. 20764], Menon 1999:275 [ref. 24904]). •Synonym of Channa gachua (Hamilton 1822) -- (Pethiyagoda 1991:277 [ref. 20075] as kelaarti, Ng et al. 1999:57 [ref. 24286] as kelaarti, Courtenay & Williams 2004:70 [ref. 27545], Kottelat 2013:460 [ref. 32989], Knight 2016:8589 [ref. 34348], Lalramliana et al. 2018:174 [ref. 36027]). •Valid as Channa kelaartii (Günther 1861) -- (Conte-Grand et al. 2017:17 [ref. 35598], Rüber et al. 2019:[4] [ref. 36913], Perera et al. 2020:415 [ref. 37771], Susasinghe et al. 2020:160 [ref. 37482]). Current status: Valid as Channa kelaartii (Günther 1861). Channidae. Distribution: South Asia: Sri Lanka and southern Peninsular India. Habitat: freshwater.