trigrammus, Cynoglossus Günther [A.] 1862:494 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 4; ref. 1969] China. Lectotype: BMNH 1856.9.19.1215. Paralectotypes: BMNH 1851.12.27.169 (1). Lectotype selected by Menon 1977:95 [ref. 7071]. •Synonym of Cynoglossus abbreviatus (Gray 1834) -- (Menon 1977:93 [ref. 7071], Lindberg & Fedorov 1993:211 [ref. 21500]). •Valid as Cynoglossus trigrammus Günther 1862 -- (Lu & Wu in Kuang et al. 1986:338 [ref. 26639], Zheng 1989:376 [ref. 21202], Feng in Pan et al. 1991:535 [ref. 23876], Li & Wang 1995:371 [ref. 16193], Zhu 1995:190 [ref. 25213], Chen et al. 1997:178 [ref. 26476], Kottelat 2001:64 [ref. 25482], Kottelat 2013:467 [ref. 32989], Wang et al. 2016:138 [ref. 34517], Fricke et al. 2017:85 [ref. 35160]). Current status: Valid as Cynoglossus trigrammus Günther 1862. Cynoglossidae: Cynoglossinae. Distribution: China. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.