harcourtbutleri, Ophiocephalus Annandale [N.] 1918:54, Pls. 2 (fig. 7), 4 (figs. 16-17) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 14; ref. 127] Inle Lake, southern Shan State, Myanmar. Holotype: ZSI F 9439/1. Paratypes: ?FAKU P1170 (1), He-Ho. Originally as harcourt-butleri, correction mandatory. See Das 2003:351 [ref. 27706]. •Synonym of Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:1019 [ref. 20764], Menon 1999:275 [ref. 24904]). •Valid as Channa harcourtbutleri (Annandale 1918) -- (Ng et al. 1999:58 [ref. 24286], Courtenay & Williams 2004:73 [ref. 27545], Kottelat 2013:460 [ref. 32989], Lalhlimpuia et al. 2016:349 [ref. 34637], Kano et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34887], Endruweit 2017:178 [ref. 35627], Lalramliana et al. 2018:167 [ref. 36027], Praveenraj et al. 2018:11 [ref. 36419], Praveenraj et al. 2018:150 [ref. 36434], Praveenraj et al. 2019:69 [ref. 36501], Rüber et al. 2019:[4] [ref. 36913], Praveenraj et al. 2020:946 [ref. 38037], Fuke et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38221], Laskar et al. 2023:22838 [ref. 40157], Britz et al. 2024:22 [ref. 40761], Endruweit 2024:50 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Channa harcourtbutleri (Annandale 1918). Channidae. Distribution: Southeast Asia: Salween, Black, Ma and Red River basins (southern Shan state, Myanmar, China and Vietnam); Eastern Ghats (India). Habitat: freshwater.