meridionalis, Silurus soldatovi Chen [H.-L.] 1977:209, Pl. 2 (fig. 7) [Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica v. 6 (no. 2); ref. 7239] Chang Jiang [Yangtze River] system, China. Syntypes: ?Mus. Inst. Hydrobiol. Acad. Sinica, Hupei 101-102 (2), 0719 (1), 66.5.194-195 (2), 731419 (1), 731494 (1), 746003 (1), 746008-09 (2). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:380 [ref. 29155]. •Synonym of Silurus soldatovi Nikolskii & Soin 1848, but a valid subspecies as described -- (Zhu 1995:143 [ref. 25213], Yang in Chen 1998:277 [ref. 23556]). •Valid as Silurus meridionalis Chen 1977 -- (Kobayakawa 1989:168 [ref. 13476], Li in Ding 1994:446 [ref. 21531], Dai in Chu et al. 1999:86 [ref. 24534], Tang et al. 2001:14 [ref. 25373], Ferraris 2007:380 [ref. 29155], Nguyen et al. 2015:74 [ref. 33790], Zhang et al. 2016:180 [ref. 34477], Li et al. 2019:312 [ref. 37053], Zhang et al. 2019:502 [ref. 36699] dated 1934, Guo 2021:775 [ref. 38618], Chen et al. 2023:3 [ref. 41122], Chen et al. 2024:3 [ref. 41182]). Current status: Valid as Silurus meridionalis Chen 1977. Siluridae. Distribution: East Asia: Yangtze River basin (China). Habitat: freshwater.