rita, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:165, 376, Pl. 24 (fig. 53) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Bengal estuaries. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:106 [ref. 29155]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 92 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Rita rita (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:38 [ref. 15970], Coad 1981:15 [ref. 22348], Burgess 1989:66 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:190 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:578 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:142 [ref. 19952], Ferraris 1999:21 [ref. 23839], Menon 1999:197 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:325 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2000:356 [ref. 25207], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Mirza 2003:17 [ref. 27265], Yadav 2003:19 [ref. 27711], Ataur Rahman 2003:210 [ref. 31338], Ng 2004:1 [ref. 27758], Jayaram 2006:19 [ref. 28762], Ferraris 2007:106 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:152 [ref. 29923], Lal et al. 2017:80 [ref. 34862], Grant 2020:25 [ref. 38010], Kosygin et al. 2022:667 [ref. 40736], Çiçek et al. 2023:53 [ref. 40326]). Current status: Valid as Rita rita (Hamilton 1822). Ritidae. Distribution: South Asia: Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.