carce, Syngnathus Hamilton [F.] 1822:13, 362 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Botanical Garden of Colcata, Ganges River system, India. Neotype: BMNH 1889.2.1.4077 (99.5 mm SL). Neotype designated by Dawson 1977:603 [ref. 1066]; called invalid by Kottelat 2013:305 [ref. 32989]. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:38 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 7 [ref. 37532] •Valid as Ichthyocampus carce (Hamilton 1822) -- (Dawson 1977:602 [ref. 1066], Dawson 1985:107 [ref. 6541], Ataur Rahman 1989:36 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:768 [ref. 20764], Liang in Pan et al. 1991:343 [ref. 23876], Kottelat et al. 1993:99 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:176 [ref. 22772], Paulus 1999:2271 [ref. 24794], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:604 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S101 [ref. 27377], Ataur Rahman 2003:50 [ref. 31338], Kuiter 2009:280 [ref. 30404], Kottelat 2013:305 [ref. 32989], Hamilton et al. 2016:Supplement 2 [ref. 35615], Suresh et al. 2018:169 [ref. 36495], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 13 [ref. 38321], Taki et al. 2021:342 [ref. 39830], Moots 2022:475 [ref. 39722]). Current status: Valid as Ichthyocampus carce (Hamilton 1822). Syngnathidae: Syngnathinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: west coast of India and Sri Lanka east to Sulawesi (Indonesia) and lower Mekong River basin, Vietnam. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.