pabda, Silurus Hamilton [F.] 1822:150, 374, Pl. 25 (fig. 47) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ponds and rivers of Bengal. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:372 [ref. 29155]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 83 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Ompok pabda (Hamilton 1822) -- (Coad 1981:16 [ref. 22348], Burgess 1989:86 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:168 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:584 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:564 [ref. 23778], Menon 1999:218 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:326 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2000:356 [ref. 25207], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Mirza 2003:20 [ref. 27265], Ataur Rahman 2003:187 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:108 [ref. 28762], Ferraris 2007:372 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:153 [ref. 29923], Ng & Hadiaty 2009:56 [ref. 30458], Ng 2013:165 [ref. 32814], Gurung et al. 2013:4883 [ref. 32969], Sudasinghe & Meegaskumbura 2016:270 [ref. 34695], Suresh et al. 2018:123 [ref. 36495], Çiçek et al. 2023:41 [ref. 40326], Gupta et al. 2024:101 [ref. 41453]). Current status: Valid as Ompok pabda (Hamilton 1822). Siluridae. Distribution: South central Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Habitat: freshwater.