madraspatanum, Glyptosternum Day [F.] 1873:526 [The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology v. 11; ref. 17368] Bowany [Bhavani] River, Neilgherries [Nilgiris], Madras State, India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: (5) AMS B.7759 (1, syntype?), B.8004 (1, syntype?); NMW 46582083 (2); RMNH 2739 (1); ZMB 10798 (1), 10829 (1), 11208 (1); ZSI F1235 (1), F1313 (1). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:129 [ref. 20743], Whitehead & Talwar 1976:158 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:298-299 [ref. 25110], Ferraris 2007:391 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Glyptothorax madraspatanum (Day 1873) -- (Burgess 1989:132 [ref. 12860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:656 [ref. 20764], Zacharias et al. 1996:41 [ref. 25526], Arunachalam & Sankaranarayanan 1999:336 [ref. 24216], Menon 1999:246 [ref. 24904] as madraspatanam, Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26359] as madraspatanus, Jayaram 2006:230 [ref. 28762], Thomson & Page 2006:50 [ref. 28859], Ferraris 2007:391 [ref. 29155] as madraspatanus, Gopi 2007:125 [ref. 29410] as madraspatanum, Gopi 2010:58 [ref. 30877], Dahanukar et al. 2011:1886 [ref. 31441], Plamoottil & Abraham 2013:17 [ref. 32693] as madraspathanum). Current status: Valid as Glyptothorax madraspatanus (Day 1873). Sisoridae: Sisorinae. Distribution: Peninsular India. Habitat: freshwater.