elongata, Solea Day [F.] 1877:426, Pl. 90 (fig. 4) [The fishes of India Part 3; ref. 4886] Madras, India. Syntypes (2) and/or Day specimens: ?AMS B.8278-79 (2); ZSI 1091 (1, lost), 1094 (1, lost), 2714 (1, figured specimen, lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:162 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:297 [ref. 25110]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Valid as Solea elongata Day 1877 -- (Goren & Dor 1994:72 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:361 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:234 [ref. 23922], Munroe 2001:3881 [ref. 26314], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S122 [ref. 27377], Vachon et al. 2005:318 [ref. 29620], Vachon et al. 2008:16 [ref. 29607], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:84 [ref. 35264], Psomadakis et al. 2015:327 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36183], Eagderi et al. 2019:124 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 12 [ref. 38321], Desoutter-Meniger & Chapleau 2022:401 [ref. 40245]). Current status: Valid as Solea elongata Day 1877. Soleidae. Distribution: Red Sea; northern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf east to Sri Lanka and western Bay of Bengal (India). Habitat: marine.