lineatus, Silurus Thunberg [C. P.] 1787:31, footnote 13 [Museum naturalium Academiae Upsaliensis. ... Praesidae; ref. 17911] Eastern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): ZMUU P 28555. Type catalog: Wallin 1996:62 [ref. 32133]. Ferraris 2007:350 [ref. 29155]. Described in more detail in Thunberg 1791:191 [ref. 17913] with figure (Pl. 6) and Thunberg 1792:176, pl. 6 [ref. 30158]. Kottelat (2013) gives syntypes, including UUMZ 285.. •Valid as Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg 1787) -- (Gomon & Taylor 1982:2 [ref. 8475], Dor 1984:51 [ref. 29757], Sawada in Masuda et al. 1984:60 [ref. 6441], Taylor 1986:213 [ref. 6282], Taylor & Gomon 1986:160 [ref. 6196], Allen & Swainston 1988:36 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:226 [ref. 12442], Burgess 1989:180 [ref. 12860], Randall et al. 1990:48 [ref. 15987], Coad 1991:25 [ref. 15702], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:714 [ref. 20764], Kuiter 1993:38 [ref. 23929], Kottelat et al. 1993:82 [ref. 23448], Francis 1993:158 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:13 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:77 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:164 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:60 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:22 [ref. 26476] dated 1791, Larson & Williams 1997:349 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:123 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:34 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:48 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:63 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:85 [ref. 24106], Ferraris 1999:1883 [ref. 24731], Mizuno et al. 1999:6 [ref. 25311], Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315], Johnson 1999:723 [ref. 25471], Tan & Ng 1999:298 [ref. 24254], Nakabo 2000:282 [ref. 25086], Ferraris in Randall & Lim 2000:589 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:122 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:36 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:95 [ref. 25868], Shinohara et al. 2000:176 [ref. 25987], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:143 [ref. 27511], Sakai et al. 2001:88 [ref. 25693], Shimizu 2001:21 [ref. 25799], Hutchins 2001:21 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:282 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:188, 525 [ref. 26218], Ng & Sparks 2002:564 [ref. 26377], Golani 2002:321 [ref. 26420], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S97 [ref. 27377], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:18 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:23 [ref. 27712], Tan & Lim 2004:109 [ref. 27716], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:113 [ref. 28072], Golani 2005:20 [ref. 37112], Randall 2005:61 [ref. 28239], Jayaram 2006:323 [ref. 28762] dated 1791, Hoese & Gates 2006:363 [ref. 28997], Ferraris 2007:350 [ref. 29155], Yoshino & Kishimoto 2008:1 [ref. 29565], Prokofiev 2008:671 [ref. 29826], Yoshino in Yoshino & Kimura 2009:32 [ref. 30443], Caratini & Soriano 2011:75 [ref. 39915], Fricke et al. 2011:355 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:122 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:43 [ref. 32988] dated 1791, Kottelat 2013:241 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:42 [ref. 34464], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:412 [ref. 33460], Fricke et al. 2014:25 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:168 [ref. 34104], Yoshino in Kimura et al. 2015:21 [ref. 34319], Kwun et al. 2017:141 [ref. 37287], Motomura et al. 2017:48 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:312 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[20] 258 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:59 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:37 [ref. 36273], Yoshino in Kimura et al. 2018:51 [ref. 36460], Arndt & Fricke 2019:25 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:131 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:57 [ref. 36673], Hoschke et al. 2019:154 [ref. 36626], Zajonz et al. 2019:63 [ref. 36871], Bariche & Fricke 2020:146 [ref. 37515], Goren et al. 2020:[6] [ref. 37315], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 7 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:305 [ref. 37272], Abdurahman in Motomura et al. 2021:12 [ref. 38121], Golani 2021:22 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:23 [ref. 39014], Bayhan & Ergüden 2022:143 [ref. 39844], Beton & Huseyinoglu in Tiralongo et al. 2022:743 [ref. 39557], Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:9 [ref. 40448], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:73 [ref. 41223], Holleman 2022:201 [ref. 39698], Çiçek et al. 2023:23 [ref. 40616], Allen & Erdmann 2024:133 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:82 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg 1787). Plotosidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Samoa and Tonga, north to southern Korea, southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia) and New Caledonia; eastern Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.