Species that contain: Puntius and guganio [ 3 ] records

ambassis, Barbus Day [F.] 1869:583 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868 (pt 3) (art. 5); ref. 21115] Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.7553 (1, syntype), BMNH 1889.2.1.681-85 (5), NMW 53688-89 (1, 1), RMNH 2686 (1), ZMB 11125 (1), ZSI A.788 (1). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:155 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:294 [ref. 25110]. •Synonym of Puntius guganio (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:273 [ref. 20764], Ataur Rahman 2003:147 [ref. 31338]). •Valid as Puntius ambassis (Day 1869) -- (Menon 1999:85 [ref. 24904], Menon et al. 2000:267 [ref. 25168], Jameela Beevi & Ramachandran 2005:85 [ref. 28531], Bleher 2018:702 [ref. 36647], Plamoottil 2019:717 [ref. 37157], Plamoottil & Johnson 2020:98 [ref. 37958]). Current status: Valid as Puntius ambassis (Day 1869). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: peninsular India. Habitat: freshwater.

carletoni, Barbus Fowler [H. W.] 1924:89, Fig. 7 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 76; ref. 15446] Dehra Doon, India. Holotype: MCZ 4104. Paratypes: MCZ 160836 [ex MCZ 4104] (17). •Synonym of Puntius guganio (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:95 [ref. 24904]). •Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:288 [ref. 20764], Kottelat 2013:149 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

guganio, Cyprinus Hamilton [F.] 1822:338, 392 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Brahmaputra and Yamuna rivers, India. No types known. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 206 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Puntius guganio (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ataur Rahman 1989:129 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:273 [ref. 20764], Menon 1999:95 [ref. 24904], Menon et al. 2000:267 [ref. 25168], Karmakar 2000:29 [ref. 25662], Ataur Rahman 2003:147 [ref. 31338], Kullander & Fang 2005:297 [ref. 28193], Jameela Beevi & Ramachandran 2005:85 [ref. 28531], Shrestha 2008:79 [ref. 29923], Conway et al. 2011:1755 [ref. 31594], Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:83 [ref. 32071]). •Valid as Pethia guganio (Hamilton 1822) -- (Knight 2013:181 [ref. 32828], Shangningam & Vishwanath 2018:591 [ref. 35803], Bleher 2018:664 [ref. 36647], Shangningam et al. 2020:331 [ref. 37259], Shangningam & Kosygin 2023:18 [ref. 39886]). Current status: Valid as Pethia guganio (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: Ganga-Brahmaputra basin, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater.