militaris, Silurus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:305 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Asia. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:51 [ref. 29155]. See van Oijen et al. 2009:108 [ref. 30423]. •Valid as Osteogeneiosus militaris (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Jayaram & Dhanze 1979:49 [ref. 6800], Burgess 1989:168 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:229 [ref. 24860] as Osteogeniosus, Talwar & Jhingran 1991:711 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:81 [ref. 23448], Kottelat & Lim 1996:243 [ref. 23210], Rainboth 1996:168 [ref. 22772], Kailola 1999:1879 [ref. 24732], Tan & Ng 1999:297 [ref. 24254], Kailola in Randall & Lim 2000:589 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S97 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:8 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:252 [ref. 31338], Kailola 2004:141 [ref. 28108], Jayaram 2006:328 [ref. 28762], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:87 [ref. 29031], Ferraris 2007:51 [ref. 29155], Kottelat 2013:250 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:45 [ref. 34464], Psomadakis et al. 2015:166 [ref. 34104], Suresh et al. 2018:137 [ref. 36495], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 8 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:310 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:279 [ref. 39830], Kailola 2022:196 [ref. 39697], Marceniuk et al. 2023:37 [ref. 40422]). Current status: Valid as Osteogeneiosus militaris (Linnaeus 1758). Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan east to Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Habitat: brackish, marine.