Species that contain: Mystus and vittatus [ 7 ] records

carcio, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:181, 377, Pl. 23 (fig. 60) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ponds of northern Bengal, India. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:98 [ref. 29155]. Pl. 23 (fig. 60) is wrongly captioned as batasio and should have been captioned as carcio -- see Grant 2006:4 [ref. 28890]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 102 [ref. 37532]. •Synonym of Mystus vittatus (Bloch 1794) -- (Roberts 1992:80 [ref. 14632], Menon 1999:207 [ref. 24904]). •Synonym of Mystus tengara (Hamilton 1822) -- (Jayaram & Sanyal 2003:107 [ref. 26894], Ferraris 2007:98 [ref. 29155]). •Valid as Mystus carcio (Hamilton 1822) -- (Grant 2006 [ref. 28890], Darshan et al. 2010:49 [ref. 40203], Darshan et al. 2011:2177 [ref. 31641], Kottelat 2013:264 [ref. 32989], Sudasinghe et al. 2016:171 [ref. 34902], Darshan et al. 2019:521 [ref. 36873]). Current status: Valid as Mystus carcio (Hamilton 1822). Bagridae. Distribution: South Asia: Brahmaputra River basin (India). Habitat: freshwater.

horai, Mystus (Mystus) vittatus Jayaram [K. C.] 1954:536, Fig. 4; Pl. 19. [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 51 (pt 4); ref. 2336] Indus River at Kalabagh, Pakistan. Syntypes: ZSI (4) lost. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:95 [ref. 29155]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. See Das 2003:379 [ref. 27706]. •Valid as Mystus horai Jayaram 1954 -- (Burgess 1989:69 [ref. 12860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:562 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:130 [ref. 19952], Rafique 2000:325 [ref. 25220], Jayaram & Sanyal 2003:61 [ref. 26894], Mirza 2003:17 [ref. 27265], Jayaram 2006:43 [ref. 28762], Grant 2006 [ref. 28890], Ferraris 2007:95 [ref. 29155], Kottelat 2013:263 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Valid as Mystus horai Jayaram 1954. Bagridae. Distribution: Indus river system, Pakistan (if valid). Habitat: freshwater.

keletius, Bagrus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:411 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 14; ref. 4882] Puducherry [Pondicherry], India. Lectotype: MNHN A-9011. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-4369 [ex RMNH] (1) Java. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:26 [ref. 19575], Ferraris 2007:98 [ref. 29155]. Type information: Roberts 1993:29 [ref. 21799]. Lectotype selected by Ng 2002:166 [ref. 26403]. •In part (Java specimen) synonym of Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Roberts 1993:29 [ref. 21799], Ng 2002:162 [ref. 26403]). •Synonym of Mystus armatus (Day 1865) or Mystus vittatus (Bloch 1794) after lectotype designation -- (Ng 2002:165 [ref. 26403]). •Synonym of Mystus vittatus (Bloch 1794) -- (Ferraris 2007:98 [ref. 29155]). •Valid as Mystus keletius (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Burgess 1989:70 [ref. 12860], Pethiyagoda 1991:149 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:562 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:130 [ref. 19952], Jayaram & Sanyal 2003:63 [ref. 26894], Menon 1999:202 [ref. 24904], Rema-Devi 2001:297 [ref. 25883], Ng 2002:162 [ref. 26403], Yadav 2003:18 [ref. 27711], Jayaram 2006:43 [ref. 28762], Grant 2006 [ref. 28890], Pethiyagoda et al. 2008:233 [ref. 29985], Ng & Pethiyagoda 2013:169 [ref. 33011], Kottelat 2013:263 [ref. 32989], Plamoottil 2016:1975 [ref. 34462], Sudasinghe et al. 2016:171 [ref. 34902], Plamoottil 2020:116 [ref. 38337]). Current status: Valid as Mystus keletius (Valenciennes 1840). Bagridae. Distribution: South Asia: Pondicherry, India. Habitat: freshwater.

merianiensis, Macrones Chaudhuri [B. L.] 1913:253, Pl. 9 (figs. 1, 1a-b) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 8 (pt 3); ref. 819] Pond at Mariani Junction, Brahmaputra River drainage, northeastern Assam, India. Holotype (unique): ZSI F7781/1. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:126 [ref. 20743], Ferraris 2007:85 [ref. 29155]. •Synonym of Batasio tengana (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:551 [ref. 20764] as marianiensis). •Synonym of Mystus vittatus (Bloch 1794) -- (Menon 1999:207 [ref. 24904] as marianensis). •Valid as Batasio merianiensis (Chaudhuri 1913) -- (Ng & Kottelat 2001:507 [ref. 25746], Ng 2004:67 [ref. 27646], Ng & Edds 2004:295 [ref. 27993], Vishwanath & Darshan 2006:2162 [ref. 28454], Ng 2006:101 [ref. 28588], Jayaram 2006:85 [ref. 28762], Arunachalam & Muralidharan 2007:2680 [ref. 29123] dates 1931, Ferraris 2007:85 [ref. 29155], Ng 2008:1 [ref. 29713], Ng 2009:253 [ref. 30216], Darshan et al. 2011:52 [ref. 31332], Gurung et al. 2013:4883 [ref. 32969], Plamoottil 2015:1805 [ref. 33977]). Current status: Valid as Batasio merianiensis (Chaudhuri 1913). Bagridae. Distribution: Assam, India; Bhutan. Habitat: freshwater.

tengana, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:176, 377, Pl. 39 (fig. 58) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Tista River at Tista barrage, 26°45'10"N, 88°34'11"E, India. Neotype: UMMZ 244796. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:86 [ref. 29155]. See Ng & Kottelat 2001:507 [ref. 25746] for comments on locality. Neotype designated by Ng 2006:103 [ref. 28588]. Information on type locality (Brahmaputra River at Gualpara, India) see Britz 2019:42 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 98 [ref. 37532]. •Synonym of Mystus vittatus (Bloch 1794) -- (Roberts 1992:80 [ref. 14632]). •Valid as Batasio tengana (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ataur Rahman 1989:194 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:551 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:141 [ref. 19952], Sen 1995:560 [ref. 23778], Menon 1999:211 [ref. 24904], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662] as tengara, Ng & Kottelat 2001:507 [ref. 25746], Ataur Rahman 2003:214 [ref. 31338], Bhatt & Jayaram 2004:1341 [ref. 27473], Ng 2004:67 [ref. 27646], Ng & Edds 2004:295 [ref. 27993], Vishwanath & Darshan 2006:2162 [ref. 28454], Ng 2006:101 [ref. 28588], Jayaram 2006:87 [ref. 28762], Arunachalam & Muralidharan 2007:2680 [ref. 29123], Ferraris 2007:86 [ref. 29155], Ng 2008:1 [ref. 29713], Ng 2009:253 [ref. 30216], Darshan et al. 2011:52 [ref. 31332], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Plamoottil 2015:1806 [ref. 33977]). Current status: Valid as Batasio tengana (Hamilton 1822). Bagridae. Distribution: Brahmaputra River basin: India and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater.

tengara, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:183, 377, Pl. 3 (fig. 61) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ponds of India. No types known. Possible syntypes: BMNH 1858.8.15.94-96 (3). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:97 [ref. 29155]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 103 [ref. 37532]. •Questionably a synonym of Mystus vittatus (Bloch 1794) -- (Grant 2006 [ref. 28890]). •Valid as Mystus tengara (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:38 [ref. 15970], Coad 1981:15 [ref. 22348], Burgess 1989:70 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:202 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:571 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:131 [ref. 19952], Nath 1996:593 [ref. 24975], Menon 1999:206 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:325 [ref. 25220], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Jayaram & Sanyal 2003:107 [ref. 26894], Mirza 2003:17 [ref. 27265], Ataur Rahman 2003:224 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:54 [ref. 28762], Ferraris 2007:97 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:151 [ref. 29923], Patra 2011:1612 [ref. 31232], Darshan et al. 2011:2177 [ref. 31641], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Kottelat 2013:264 [ref. 32989], Sudasinghe et al. 2016:171 [ref. 34902], Darshan et al. 2019:521 [ref. 36873], Nair et al. 2021:[2] [ref. 38773], Kosygin et al. 2022:666 [ref. 40736], Çiçek et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40326]). Current status: Valid as Mystus tengara (Hamilton 1822). Bagridae. Distribution: South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, ?Thailand and ?Java (Indonesia). Habitat: freshwater.

vittatus, Silurus Bloch [M. E.] 1794:50, Pl. 371 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 8; ref. 463] Tranquebar [Tharangambadi], India. Holotype (unique): ZMB 2939. Type catalog: Paepke 1999:48 [ref. 24282], Ferraris 2007:98 [ref. 29155] On p. 40 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 11 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Mystus vittatus (Bloch 1794) -- (Shrestha 1978:38 [ref. 15970], Burgess 1989:70 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:202 [ref. 24860], Pethiyagoda 1991:151 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:573 [ref. 20764], Indra 1991:240 [ref. 24005], Mo 1991:131 [ref. 19952], Roberts 1992:80 [ref. 14632], Indra 1993:186 [ref. 24009], Rema Devi 1993:207 [ref. 24010], Rema Devi & Ilango 1993:247 [ref. 24017], Indra 1994:419 [ref. 24015], Sen 1995:562 [ref. 23778], Vu & Nguyen 1997:27 [ref. 26438], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:156 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi et al. 1999:159 [ref. 24758], Sen 1999:200 [ref. 24750], Menon 1999:207 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:325 [ref. 25220], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Rema-Devi 2001:296 [ref. 25883], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26359], Jayaram & Sanyal 2003:111 [ref. 26894] dated 1797, Rafique et al. 2003:97 [ref. 27173], Mirza 2003:18 [ref. 27265], Khan 2003:7 [ref. 27710], Yadav 2003:19 [ref. 27711], Ataur Rahman 2003:224 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:56 [ref. 28762], Grant 2006 [ref. 28890], Ferraris 2007:98 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:151 [ref. 29923], Pethiyagoda et al. 2008:233 [ref. 29985], Conway et al. 2011:1755 [ref. 31594], Gurung et al. 2013:4883 [ref. 32969], Plamoottil & Abraham 2013:43 [ref. 32983], Ng & Pethiyagoda 2013:168 [ref. 33011], Kottelat 2013:263 [ref. 32989], Plamoottil 2016:1975 [ref. 34462], Sudasinghe et al. 2016:171 [ref. 34902], Suresh et al. 2018:119 [ref. 36495], Darshan et al. 2019:521 [ref. 36873], Plamoottil 2020:118 [ref. 38337], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484]). Current status: Valid as Mystus vittatus (Bloch 1794). Bagridae. Distribution: South Asia: Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.