punctatus, Puntius Day [F.] 1865:302 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865 (pt 1); ref. 5295] Cochin, India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.7746 (1), MCZ 4303 (1), NMW 54489-90 (2), RMNH 2545 (1), ZIN 8331 (1). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:157 [ref. 23762]. Also appeared in Day 1865:214, Pl. 7, fig. 1 [ref. 1074]. •Synonym of Puntius ticto (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:291 [ref. 20764]). •Synonym of Puntius ticto (Hamilton 1822), but a valid subspecies -- (Rema Devi 1993:198 [ref. 24010]). •Valid as Puntius punctatus Day 1865 -- (Rema Devi et al. 1996:134 [ref. 24021], Menon et al. 2000:267 [ref. 25168], Jameela Beevi & Ramachandran 2005:85 [ref. 28531], Mercy & Jacob 2007:78 [ref. 29454], Meegaskumbura et al. 2008:151 [ref. 29872], Knight et al. 2012:2413 [ref. 31841]). •Valid as Pethia punctata (Day 1865) -- (Pethiygoda et al. 2012:81 [ref. 32071], Lalramliana et al. 2014:373 [ref. 33389], Katwate et al. 2014:5814 [ref. 33390], /Katwate et al. 2014:242 [ref. 33433], Katwate et al. 2014:202 [ref. 33571], Batuwita et al. 2015:580 [ref. 33714], Atkore et al. 2015:295 [ref. 33789], Katwate et al. 2015:414 [ref. 33839], Katwate et al. 2016:2044 [ref. 34413], Bleher 2018:682 [ref. 36647], Praveenraj et al. 2022:293 [ref. 39687]). Current status: Valid as Pethia punctata (Day 1865). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: Western Ghats, southern India. Habitat: freshwater.