merianiensis, Macrones Chaudhuri [B. L.] 1913:253, Pl. 9 (figs. 1, 1a-b) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 8 (pt 3); ref. 819] Pond at Mariani Junction, Brahmaputra River drainage, northeastern Assam, India. Holotype (unique): ZSI F7781/1. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:126 [ref. 20743], Ferraris 2007:85 [ref. 29155]. •Synonym of Batasio tengana (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:551 [ref. 20764] as marianiensis). •Synonym of Mystus vittatus (Bloch 1794) -- (Menon 1999:207 [ref. 24904] as marianensis). •Valid as Batasio merianiensis (Chaudhuri 1913) -- (Ng & Kottelat 2001:507 [ref. 25746], Ng 2004:67 [ref. 27646], Ng & Edds 2004:295 [ref. 27993], Vishwanath & Darshan 2006:2162 [ref. 28454], Ng 2006:101 [ref. 28588], Jayaram 2006:85 [ref. 28762], Arunachalam & Muralidharan 2007:2680 [ref. 29123] dates 1931, Ferraris 2007:85 [ref. 29155], Ng 2008:1 [ref. 29713], Ng 2009:253 [ref. 30216], Darshan et al. 2011:52 [ref. 31332], Gurung et al. 2013:4883 [ref. 32969], Plamoottil 2015:1805 [ref. 33977]). Current status: Valid as Batasio merianiensis (Chaudhuri 1913). Bagridae. Distribution: Assam, India; Bhutan. Habitat: freshwater.