Species that contain: Puntius and sophore [ 8 ] records

annandalei, Barbus Fowler [H. W.] 1924:87, Fig. 6 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 76; ref. 15446] Sutlej River near Ludhiana, India. Holotype (unique): MCZ 18655. •Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:288 [ref. 20764], Menon 1999:101 [ref. 24904], Kottelat 2013:149 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

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.

chrysopterus, Systomus McClelland [J.] 1839:285, 381 [Asiatic Researches v. 19 (pt 2); ref. 2923] Bengal and Assam, India. No types known. •Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822) -- (see Coad 1981:11 [ref. 22348], Menon 1999:101 [ref. 24904], Kottelat 2013:149 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

duvaucelii, Leuciscus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1844:95, Pl. 491 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 17; ref. 1010] Fresh water in Bengal. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-3575 (6). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:27 [ref. 19574]. •Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:101 [ref. 24904] as duvancelli, Kottelat 2013:149 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

modestus, Puntius (Puntius) Kner [R.] 1867:348, Pl. 15 (fig. 3) [Reise der öesterreichischen Fregatte "Novara" v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 18426] Madras, India. Syntypes: NMW 54372-75 (4, 7, 4, 4). •Uncertain in genus Puntius -- (Plamoottil & Johnson 2020:100 [ref. 37958]). •Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:101 [ref. 24904], Kottelat 2013:149 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

sophore, Cyprinus Hamilton [F.] 1822:310, 389, Pl. 19 (fig. 86) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Srimangal [= Sreemangal] town market, from Hail Hoar floodplain near Moulvi Bazaar, Bangladesh. Neotype: ZRC 35064. Neotype selected by Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:73 [ref. 32071]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 181 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:36 [ref. 15970], Ataur Rahman 1989:133 [ref. 24860], Coad 1981:11 [ref. 22348], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:288 [ref. 20764], Indra 1991:239 [ref. 24005], Indra 1993:184 [ref. 24009], Rema Devi 1993:356 [ref. 24007], Rema Devi & Ilango 1993:245 [ref. 24017], Indra 1994:416 [ref. 24015], Sen 1995:516 [ref. 23778], Coad 1996:5 [ref. 23831], Banik & Choudhury 1996:579 [ref. 24736], Doi 1997:11 [ref. 22832], Kullander et al. 1999:109 [ref. 23689], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:154 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:170 [ref. 24760], Sen 1999:193 [ref. 24750], Rema Devi et al. 1999:157 [ref. 24758], Menon 1999:101 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:324 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2000:355 [ref. 25207], Shan et al. in Yue 2000:7 [ref. 25272], Karmakar 2000:29 [ref. 25662], Arunachalam et al. 2001:128 [ref. 25692], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26359], Rafique et al. 2003:97 [ref. 27173], Mirza 2003:9 [ref. 27265], Yadav 2003:14 [ref. 27711] as sophors, Ataur Rahman 2003:152 [ref. 31338], Vishwanath & Laisram 2004:136 [ref. 27863], Kullander & Fang 2005:297 [ref. 28193], Shantakumar & Vishwanath 2006:2279 [ref. 28676], Shrestha 2008:80 [ref. 29923], Conway et al. 2011:1755 [ref. 31594], Kumar et al. 2012:32 [ref. 31807], Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:73 [ref. 32071], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Gurung et al. 2013:4882 [ref. 32969], Plamoottil & Abraham 2014:1095 [ref. 33150], Kottelat 2013:149 [ref. 32989], Plamoottil 2014:1587 [ref. 33648], Plamoottil 2014:139 [ref. 33650], Zhang et al. 2016:100 [ref. 34477], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172], Suresh et al. 2018:109 [ref. 36495], Bleher 2018:728 [ref. 36647], Plamoottil 2019:717 [ref. 37157], Ren et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37805], Plamoottil & Vineeth 2020:100 [ref. 38032], Kosygin et al. 2022:656 [ref. 40736], Shangningam & Kosygin 2022:59 [ref. 39587], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484], Çiçek et al. 2023:21 [ref. 40326]). Current status: Valid as Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: Kabul, Ganges and Brahmaputra River basins (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, India and Myanmar; ?China). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

stigma, Leuciscus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1844:93, Pl. 489 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 17; ref. 1010] Mysore, India. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-6414. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:26 [ref. 19574]. Kottelat (2013) lists this species under two genera. •Valid as Barbodes stigma (Valenciennes 1844) -- (Kottelat 2013:80 [ref. 32989]). •Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822) -- (Menon 1999:101 [ref. 24904], Ataur Rahman 2003:152 [ref. 31338], Kottelat 2013:179 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Puntius stigma (Valenciennes 1844) -- (Plamoottil 2014:140 [ref. 33650], Bleher 2018:732 [ref. 36647], Plamoottil 2019:717 [ref. 37157], Plamoottil & Johnson 2020:97 [ref. 37958], Plamoottil & Vineeth 2020:100 [ref. 38032]). Current status: Valid as Puntius stigma (Valenciennes 1844). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: southern India. Habitat: freshwater.

sulphureus, Leuciscus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1844:96 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 17; ref. 1010] Mysore, India. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-3880. •Uncertain in genus Puntius -- (Plamoottil & Johnson 2020:99 [ref. 37958]). •Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822) -- (Kottelat 2013:149 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Puntius sophore (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Habitat: freshwater.