sathete, Muraenophis Hamilton [F.] 1822:17, 363 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges estuaries near Calcutta, India. No types known. •Valid as Lycodontis sathete (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:79 [ref. 20764]). •Valid as Strophidon sathete (Hamilton 1822) -- (Randall et al. 1990:42 [ref. 15987], Chen et al. 1994:54 [ref. 22258], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:viii [ref. 21953], Böhlke 1995:460 [ref. 21738], Quéro & Saldanha 1995:68 [ref. 22017], Randall & Golani 1995:871 [ref. 21744], Böhlke 1997:106 [ref. 23177], Chen et al. 1997:20 [ref. 26476], Randall et al. 1997:42 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:51 [ref. 23965], Böhlke et al. 1999:1657 [ref. 24692], Johnson 1999:722 [ref. 25471], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:585 [ref. 25122], Böhlke & McCosker 2001:73 [ref. 25226], Hutchins 2001:17 [ref. 25847], Allen & Adrim 2003:23 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S95 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:611 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:12 [ref. 27510], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:106 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:50 [ref. 28239], Smith & Böhlke 2006:36 [ref. 28678], Allen et al. 2006:258 [ref. 29005], Fricke et al. 2009:17 [ref. 30213], Zhang et al. 2010:239 [ref. 31511], Fricke et al. 2011:351 [ref. 31242], Loh et al. 2011:50 [ref. 31690], Allen & Erdmann 2012:97 [ref. 31980], Smith 2012:33 [ref. 32155]). Current status: Valid as Strophidon sathete (Hamilton 1822). Muraenidae: Muraeninae. Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Mariana Islands and Society Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.