bilineatus, Bagrus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:434 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 14; ref. 4882] Puducherry, India; Rangoon, Myanmar. Syntypes: MNHN A-9344 (1, mounted) Puducherry; Myanmar syntype lost. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:3 [ref. 19575], Ferraris 2007:49 [ref. 29155]. •Synonym of Netuma thalassina (Rüppell 1837) -- (Taylor 1986:159 [ref. 6195]). •Valid as Arius bilineatus (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Kailola 1986:546 [ref. 6312], Paxton et al. 1989:219 [ref. 12442], Kottelat et al. 1993:79 [ref. 23448], Randall 1995:75 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:121 [ref. 23922], Kailola 1999:1842 [ref. 24732], Tan & Ng 1999:295 [ref. 24254], Kailola in Randall & Lim 2000:589 [ref. 25122], Kailola 2000:127 [ref. 25113], Hutchins 2001:21 [ref. 25847], Ng 2003:10 [ref. 27208], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S97 [ref. 27377]). •Valid as Netuma bilineatus (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Kailola 2004:140 [ref. 28108], Hoese & Gates 2006:354 [ref. 28997], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:79 [ref. 29031], Coad 2010:224 [ref. 36620]). •Valid as Arius bilineatus (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Wang et al. 2005:423 [ref. 28263]). •Valid as Netuma bilineata (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Ferraris 2007:49 [ref. 29155], Marceniuk et al. 2012:667 [ref. 32225], Larson et al. 2013:40 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:249 [ref. 32989], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2015:23 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:166 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:311 [ref. 36183], Jawad et al. 2018:99 [ref. 36262], Eagderi et al. 2019:130 [ref. 37020], Takahashi et al. 2019:268 [ref. 37057], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 8 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:309 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37637], Kailola 2022:195 [ref. 39697], Marceniuk et al. 2023:25 [ref. 40422]). Current status: Valid as Netuma bilineata (Valenciennes 1840). Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.