bleekeri, Macrones Day [F.] 1877:451, Pl. 101 (fig. 1) [The fishes of India Part 3; ref. 4886] Jumna [Yamuna] River, India. Lectotype: ZSI 1076. Paralectotypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.7999 (1, type) Seharunpore; BMNH 1889.2.1.2335-36 (2); NMW 44168 (1); RMNH 3024 (1); ZSI 781 (1), 1076 (1). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:157 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:295 [ref. 25110], Ferraris 2007:94 [ref. 29155]. Lectotype selected by Roberts 1994:246 [ref. 21568]; regarded as invalid by Ferraris 2007:94 [ref. 29155] who suggests that Sharma & Dutt's designation (1983:34) of ZSI 1076 is valid. See also Ferraris 2007:94 [ref. 29155] for more comments. See also Ng & Kottelat 2009:249 [ref. 30202]. •Synonym of Mystus keletius (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Burgess 1989:70 [ref. 12860], Pethiyagoda 1991:149 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:562 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:130 [ref. 19952], Jayaram & Sanyal 2003:63 [ref. 26894], Menon 1999:202 [ref. 24904], Rema-Devi 2001:297 [ref. 25883], Ng 2002:162 [ref. 26403], Yadav 2003:18 [ref. 27711], Jayaram 2006:43 [ref. 28762], Grant 2006 [ref. 28890], Pethiyagoda et al. 2008:233 [ref. 29985]). •Valid as Mystus bleekeri (Day 1877) -- (Shrestha 1978:38 [ref. 15970], Burgess 1989:69 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:201 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:558 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:130 [ref. 19952], Rema Devi & Ilango 1993:247 [ref. 24017], Roberts 1994:246 [ref. 21568], Indra 1994:418 [ref. 24015], Sen 1995:561 [ref. 23778], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:155 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi et al. 1999:158 [ref. 24758], Sen 1999:200 [ref. 24750], Raju Thomas et al. 1999:482 [ref. 25438], Menon 1999:200 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:325 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2000:356 [ref. 25207], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Rema-Devi 2001:296 [ref. 25883], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26359], Jayaram & Sanyal 2003:41 [ref. 26894], Rafique et al. 2003:97 [ref. 27173], Mirza 2003:17 [ref. 27265], Ataur Rahman 2003:223 [ref. 31338], Yadav 2003:18 [ref. 27711], Jayaram 2006:38 [ref. 28762], Grant 2006 [ref. 28890], Ferraris 2007:94 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:149 [ref. 29923], Patra 2011:1612 [ref. 31232], Darshan et al. 2011:2177 [ref. 31641], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Gurung et al. 2013:4883 [ref. 32969], Ng & Pethiyagoda 2013:167 [ref. 33011], Kottelat 2013:263 [ref. 32989], Plamoottil 2016:1975 [ref. 34462], Sudasinghe et al. 2016:171 [ref. 34902], Darshan et al. 2019:521 [ref. 36873], Kosygin et al. 2022:665 [ref. 40736], Vijayakrishnan & Praveenraj 2022:448 [ref. 39141]). Current status: Valid as Mystus bleekeri (Day 1877). Bagridae. Distribution: South Asia: Ganges River basin (India). Habitat: freshwater.