lazera, Clarias Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:372 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 15; ref. 1008] Upper Nile River, Egypt. Syntypes: (3, plus skeleton) MNHN 0000-1578 (1). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:44 [ref. 19575], Ferraris 2007:143 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Clarias lazera Valenciennes 1840 -- (Goren 1974:92 [ref. 7502], Zhu 1995:204 [ref. 25213]). •Synonym of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell 1822) -- (Teugles 1982:463 [ref. 27525], Teugels 1986:79 [ref. 6193], Teugels 1986:35 [ref. 12548], Krupp & Schneider 1989:387 [ref. 13651], Lévêque et al. 1989:119 [ref. 26480], Lévêque 1990:43 [ref. 19786], Lévèque et al. 1991:143 [ref. 31367], Teugels in Lévêque et al. 1992:480 [ref. 21590], Bakhoum 1994:191 [ref. 24734], Seegers 1996:205 [ref. 23725], Kottelat 2001:141 [ref. 25780], Seegers et al. 2003:37 [ref. 28087], Fricke et al. 2007:54 [ref. 29533], Ferraris 2007:143 [ref. 29155], Çiçek et al. 2024:280 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Synonym of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell 1822). Clariidae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.