orientalis, Dalophis McClelland [J.] 1844:213 [Calcutta Journal of Natural History v. 5 (no. 18); ref. 2928] Coromandel coast, India. No types known. •Valid as Lamnostoma orientalis (McClelland 1844) -- (McCosker 1977:69 [ref. 6836], McCosker & Castle 1986:179 [ref. 5690], Winterbottom et al. 1989:12 [ref. 13251], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:85 [ref. 20764], Séret & Dingerkus 1992:169 [ref. 22389], Kottelat et al. 1993:12 [ref. 23448], Goren & Dor 1994:8 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:62 [ref. 22896] as Lamnastoma, Marquet et al. 1999:43 [ref. 23934], Carpenter et al. 1997:108 [ref. 23922], Myers 1999:57 [ref. 23965], Smith & McCosker 1999:1668 [ref. 24715], Randall & Earle 2000:8 [ref. 25806], Keith et al. 2002:90 [ref. 31473], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S95 [ref. 27377], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:60 [ref. 35264], Fricke et al. 2011:352 [ref. 31342], Allen & Erdmann 2012:105 [ref. 31980], McCosker 2014:339 [ref. 33288], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Chiu et al. 2018:20 [ref. 36033], Eagderi et al. 2019:19 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 5 [ref. 38321], Allen & Erdmann 2024:115 [ref. 40796]). •Valid as Lamnostoma orientale (McClelland 1844) -- (Kottelat 2013:44 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2018:43 [ref. 35805], McCosker 2022:113 [ref. 39686], Jamandre 2023:160 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Lamnostoma orientale (McClelland 1844). Ophichthidae: Ophichthinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Comoros and Madagascar east to Philippines, New Guinea, Society Islands and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), south to New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.