ditchela, Pellona Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:314 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Vizagapatam, India. No types known. Type catalog: Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:44 [ref. 9739]. Based on Russell 1803:72, Pl. 188. •Valid as Pellona ditchela Valenciennes 1847 -- (Poll et al. 1984:48 [ref. 6172], Whitehead 1985:281 [ref. 5141], Whitehead & Wongratana 1986:202 [ref. 6284], Allen & Swainston 1988:30 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:156 [ref. 12442], Ataur Rahman 1989:254 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:124 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:20 [ref. 23448], Randall 1995:70 [ref. 22896], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780], Allen 1997:50 [ref. 23977], Munroe et al. 1999:1769 [ref. 24728], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:588 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:18 [ref. 25847], Zhang 2001:109 [ref. 26586], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:7 [ref. 27710], Seegers et al. 2003:30 [ref. 28087], Ataur Rahman 2003:278 [ref. 31338], Gates et al. 2006:319 [ref. 29008], Larson et al. 2013:33 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:51 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:24 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:162 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2018:51 [ref. 35805], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 6 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:304 [ref. 37272], Anderson 2022:164 [ref. 39690], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:53 [ref. 41223], Jamandre 2023:164 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Pellona ditchela Valenciennes 1847. Pristigasteridae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa and Madagascar east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to Philippines, south to northern Western Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.