aor, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:205, 379, Pl. 20 (fig. 68) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Rivers of Bengal and upper parts of Gangetic estuaries, India. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:106 [ref. 29155]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 116 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Mystus aor (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:38 [ref. 15970], Ataur Rahman 1989:197 [ref. 24860]). •Valid as Aorichthys aor (Hamilton 1822) -- (Burgess 1989:70 [ref. 12860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:547 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:129 [ref. 19952], Mirza et al. 1992:211 [ref. 21080], Banik & Choudhury 1996:579 [ref. 24736], Menon 1999:208 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:325 [ref. 25220], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Yadav 2003:18 [ref. 27711], Shrestha 2008:146 [ref. 29923]). •Valid as Sperata aor (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ferraris & Runge 1999:410 [ref. 24039], Ataur Rahman 2003:216 [ref. 31338], Remi Devi et al. 2005:123 [ref. 28532], Jayaram 2006:27 [ref. 28762], Ferraris 2007:106 [ref. 29155], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Kumar et al. 2020:[9] [ref. 37905], Kosygin et al. 2022:668 [ref. 40736], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484]). Current status: Valid as Sperata aor (Hamilton 1822). Bagridae. Distribution: South Asia: Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan. Habitat: freshwater.