nella, Pimelodus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:162 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 15; ref. 1008] Vizagapatam, India. Holotype: not saved. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:52 [ref. 29155]. Original as Pimelodus? nella. •Valid as Tachysurus nella (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Jayaram & Dhanze 1979:48 [ref. 6800]). •Valid as Arius nella (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Burgess 1989:169 [ref. 12860], Kottelat et al. 1993:80 [ref. 23448], Kailola 1999:1858 [ref. 24732] as "Arius", Kailola in Randall & Lim 2000:589 [ref. 25122] as "Arius", Kailola 2000:127 [ref. 25113], Ng 2003:10 [ref. 27208]). •Valid as Plicofollis nella (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Kailola 2004:142 [ref. 28108], Hoese & Gates 2006:356 [ref. 28997], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:93 [ref. 29031], Ferraris 2007:52 [ref. 29155], Kimura 2009:35 [ref. 30426], Marceniuk et al. 2012:667 [ref. 32225], Larson et al. 2013:41 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:250 [ref. 32989], Marceniuk et al. 2017:[4] [ref. 35522], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:50 [ref. 36460], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 8 [ref. 38321], Marceniuk et al. 2023:26 [ref. 40422]). Current status: Valid as Plicofollis nella (Valenciennes 1840). Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: east coast of India and Bangladesh east to New Guinea, north to Vietnam and Philippines, south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.