jella, Arius Day [F.] 1877:467, Pl. 106 (fig. 3) [The fishes of India Part 3; ref. 4886] Madras, Coromandel Coast, India. Syntypes: ZSI 1304 (1, figured specimen). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:158 [ref. 23762], Ferraris 2007:36 [ref. 29155]. •Probable synonym of Arius gagora (Hamilton 1822) -- (Kailola 1999:1848 [ref. 24732]). •Species inquirenda in Arius -- (Ferraris 2007:36 [ref. 29155]). •Synonym of Arius gagoa (Hamilton 1922) -- (Kottelat 2013:246 [ref. 32989] with question). •Valid as Arius jella Day 1877 -- (Burgess 1989:169 [ref. 12860], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S97 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:8 [ref. 27710], Kailola 2004:127 [ref. 28108] with question, Jayaram 2006:343 [ref. 28762], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:17 [ref. 29031], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 8 [ref. 38321], Kailola 2022:187 [ref. 39697], Marceniuk et al. 2023:29 [ref. 40422]). Current status: Valid as Arius jella Day 1877. Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean: southwestern India and Sri Lanka to Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.