sona, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:172, 376 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Bengal estuaries. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:45 [ref. 29155]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 94 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Tachysurus sona (Hamilton 1822) -- (Jayaram & Dhanze 1979:48 [ref. 6800], Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315]). •Valid as Arius sona (Hamilton 1822) -- (Burgess 1989:169 [ref. 12860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:705 [ref. 20764], Rainboth 1996:165 [ref. 22772], Kailola 1999:1863 [ref. 24732], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:239 [ref. 24754], Kailola in Randall & Lim 2000:589 [ref. 25122], Ng 2003:11 [ref. 27208], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S97 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:8 [ref. 27710], Jayaram 2006:347 [ref. 28762]). •Valid as Sciades sona (Hamilton 1822) -- (Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:110 [ref. 29031], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 8 [ref. 38321]). •Valid as Hemiarius sona (Hamilton 1822) -- (Kailola 2004:137 [ref. 28108], Ferraris 2007:45 [ref. 29155], Kottelat 2013:248 [ref. 32989], Psomadakis et al. 2015:164 [ref. 34104], Psomadakis et al. 2020:308 [ref. 37272], Kailola 2022:193 [ref. 39697]). •Valid as Pseudosciades sona (Hamilton 1822) -- (Marceniuk et al. 2023:37 [ref. 40422]). Current status: Valid as Pseudosciades sona (Hamilton 1822). Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. Habitat: brackish, marine.