utik, Arius Bleeker [P.] 1846:40 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 21 (art. 5); ref. 313] Syntypes: BMNH 1863.12.4.111 (1). Bleeker specimens: NMV 45987 (1). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:35 [ref. 29155]. The spelling oetik is used by Bleeker 1846:166 [ref. 5872]. Correct spelling is utik, as used by Bleeker 1862:31 [ref. 393]. •Valid as Arius utik Bleeker 1846 (often as oetik) -- (Burgess 1989:170 [ref. 12860], Kottelat et al. 1993:80 [ref. 23448], Kailola 1999:1868 [ref. 24732], Kailola in Randall & Lim 2000:589 [ref. 25122], Ng 2003:10 [ref. 27208], Kailola 2004:127 [ref. 28108], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:19 [ref. 29031], Ferraris 2007:35 [ref. 29155], Kimura 2009:33 [ref. 30426], Kottelat 2013:247 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:44 [ref. 34464], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2015:22 [ref. 34319], Marceniuk et al. 2023:29 [ref. 40422] as oetik). Current status: Valid as Arius utik Bleeker 1846. Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific: Andaman Sea to Gulf of Thailand, Kalimantan and Java (Indonesia). Habitat: brackish, marine.