typus, Lepidopygopsis Raj [B. S.] 1941:210, Fig. (p. 211), Pl. 7 [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 43 (pt 2); ref. 3596] Periyar Lake, Travancore, India, elevation 2709 feet. Holotype: ZSI F13510/1. Paratypes: CAS-SU 36567 (2), ZSI F13511/1 (9). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:33 [ref. 12291], Menon & Yazdani 1968:113 [ref. 20743]. •Valid as Lepidopygopsis typus Raj 1941 -- (Tilak 1987:108 [ref. 23969], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:396 [ref. 20764], Zacharias et al. 1996:40 [ref. 25526], Menon 1999:116 [ref. 24904]. Dahanukar et al. 2013:113 [ref. 32827] related to Tor, etc., Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172] as Lepiphygopsis, Bleher 2018:604 [ref. 36647]). Current status: Valid as Lepidopygopsis typus Raj 1941. Cyprinidae: Torinae. Distribution: Periyar River drainage, Western Ghats, India. Habitat: freshwater.