indicus, Squalus Gmelin [J. F.] 1789:1503 [Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 18139] East Indies. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1853.11.12.205 [Gronovius coll.] (skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1958:203 [ref. 13434]. •Synonym of Chiloscyllium colax [not available] -- (Kharin 1987:367 [ref. 6227]). •Valid as Chiloscyllium indicum (Gmelin 1789) -- (Dingerkus & DeFino 1983:21 [ref. 5386], Compagno 1984:193 [ref. 6474], Nakaya & Shirai in Masuda et al. 1984:8 [ref. 6441], Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:221 [ref. 36138], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:8 [ref. 20764], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:54 [ref. 27969], Compagno & Niem 1998:1255 [ref. 23787], Compagno 1999:476 [ref. 25589], Nakabo 2000:120 [ref. 25086], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:578 [ref. 25122], Compagno 2001:172 [ref. 26323], Goto 2001:82 [ref. 25912], Shinohara et al. 2001:287 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:120 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:50, 469 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S91 [ref. 27377], Compagno et al. 2005:20 [ref. 29145], Last el al. 2010:50 [ref. 32461], Allen & Erdmann 2012:47 [ref. 31980], Naylor et al. 2012:52 [ref. 32267] see remarks, Kottelat 2013:18 [ref. 32989], Psomadakis et al. 2015:76 [ref. 34104], Weigmann 2016:8 [ref. 34211], Kumar et al. 2018:295 [ref. 36178], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 1 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:166 [ref. 37272], Haroon & Kibria 2021:44 [ref. 39241], Human 2022:456 [ref. 39664], Allen & Erdmann 2024:47 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Chiloscyllium indicum (Gmelin 1789). Hemiscylliidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan east to western Indonesia, ?Philippines and ?Solomon Islands, north to southern China, ?Korea and ?Japan. Habitat: brackish, marine.