jatius, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:171, 376 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Bengal, India. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:41 [ref. 29155]. Name is a noun in apposition (Kottelat 2013). •Valid as Hemipimelodus jatius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Jayaram & Dhanze 1979:49 [ref. 6800], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:708 [ref. 20764], Jayaram 2006:332 [ref. 28762]). •Valid as Cephalocassis jatius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ferraris 2007:41 [ref. 29155] as jatia, Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 8 [ref. 38321] as jatia). •Valid as Arius jatius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Burgess 1989:168 [ref. 12860], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S97 [ref. 27377], Kailola 2004:127 [ref. 28108], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:17 [ref. 29031], Kottelat 2013:246 [ref. 32989], Marceniuk et al. 2023:29 [ref. 40422]). Current status: Valid as Arius jatius (Hamilton 1822). Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean: India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.