botius, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:192, 378 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Hoogly River at Kalna, 23°13'30.0"N, 88°22'39.0"E, West Bengal, India. Neotype: ZRC 50223. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:388 [ref. 29155], Ng & Kim 2008:65 [ref. 29920]. Neotype designated by Ng 2005:3, 15 [ref. 28144]. Information on type locality (Patgong, India) see Britz 2019:42 [ref. 37532]. •Synonym of Glyptothorax telchitta (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:663 [ref. 20764], Menon 1999:251 [ref. 24904]). •Synonym of Laguvia telchitta (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ataur Rahman 2003:233 [ref. 31338]). •Valid as Glyptothorax botius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ng 2005:2 [ref. 28144], Thomson & Page 2006:43 [ref. 28859], Edds & Ng 2007:130 [ref. 29199], Ferraris 2007:388 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:180 [ref. 29923], Anganthoibi & Vishwanath 2010:58 [ref. 30971], Ng & Lalramliana 2012:49 [ref. 32117], Ng & Lalramliana 2012:5 [ref. 32061], Rameshori & Vishwanath 2012:147 [ref. 32300], Anganthoibi & Wishwanath 2013:1 [ref. 32462] Ng & Lalramliana 2013:511 [ref. 32760], Rameshori & Vishwanath 2014:191 [ref. 33511], Darshan et al. 2015:120 [ref. 33810], Arunkumar 2016:182 [ref. 34481], Kosygin et al. 2019:574 [ref. 36899], Shangningam & Kosygin 2022:7 [ref. 39921]). Current status: Valid as Glyptothorax botius (Hamilton 1822). Sisoridae: Sisorinae. Distribution: South Asia: Hoogly River drainage, Ganga-Brahmaputra basin, India and Nepal. Habitat: freshwater.