Phalacronotus Bleeker [P.] 1857:472 Masc. Silurus phalacronotus Bleeker 1851. Type by absolute tautonymy. Also appeared in Bleeker 1858: 32 et seq., 255, 257, 302 [ref. 365]. Phalacronotus phalacronotus is included on p. 473 in ref. 6220 as a synonym of P. micruropterus Bleeker, so type is by absolute tautonymy. Type not S. leptonema as designated by Bleeker 1862:395 [ref. 391] and 1862:18 [ref. 393]. See van Oijen et al. 2009:265 [ref. 30423]. •Synonym of Kryptopterus Bleeker 1857 [sometimes dating to 1858] -- (Haig 1952:106 [ref. 12607], Roberts 1989:145 [ref. 6439]). •Valid as Phalacronotus Bleeker 1857 -- (Ferraris 2007:374 [ref. 29155], Kottelat 2013:236 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:179 [ref. 34477]). Current status: Valid as Phalacronotus Bleeker 1857. Siluridae.