alaknandi, Glyptothorax brevipinnis Tilak [R.] 1969:42, Figs. 8-11 [Journal of the Inland Fishery Society of India v. 1; ref. 7654] Alaknanda River, near Srinagar, District Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, India. Holotype (unique): ZSI F6154/2. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:388 [ref. 29155]. See Das 2003:383 [ref. 27706]. •Synonym of Glyptothorax brevipinnis Hora 1923, but a valid subspecies as described -- (Burgess 1989:132 [ref. 12860]). •Synonym of Glyptothorax pectinopterus (McClelland 1842) -- (Menon 1999:247 [ref. 24904]). •Synonym of Glyptothoax brevipinnis Hora 1923 -- (Ng 2005:15 [ref. 28144]). •Valid as Glyptothorax alaknandi Tilak 1969 -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:647 [ref. 20764], Karmakar 2000:33 [ref. 25662], Jayaram 2006:212 [ref. 28762], Thomson & Page 2006:42 [ref. 28859], Edds & Ng 2007:130 [ref. 29199], Ferraris 2007:388 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:179 [ref. 29923], Anganthoibi & Vishwanath 2010:58 [ref. 30971], Anganthoibi & Vishwanath 2011:328 [ref. 31190], Yumnam & Vishwanath 2012:147 [ref. 32300], Anganthoibi & Vishwanath 2013:1 [ref. 32462], Darshan et al. 2015:121 [ref. 33810], Kosygin et al. 2020:30 [ref. 37511], Shangningam & Kosygin 2022:7 [ref. 39921], Shangningam & Kosygin 2023:1604 [ref. 40591]). Current status: Valid as Glyptothorax alaknandi Tilak 1969. Sisoridae: Sisorinae. Distribution: South Asia: Alaknanda River drainage, Ganga-Brahmaputra basin, India and Nepal. Habitat: freshwater.