mosal, Cyprinus Hamilton [F.] 1822:306, 388 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Nathpur, Kosi River [= Koshi River], upper Ganges drainage, Bihar, India. No types known. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:44 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 179 [ref. 37532]. •Synonym of Tor putitora (Hamilton 1822) -- (see Coad 1981:13 [ref. 22348], Menon 1992:223 [ref. 20679], Doi 1997:14 [ref. 22832], Menon 1999:60 [ref. 24904]). •Valid as Tor mosal (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:305 [ref. 20764], Kundu 2000:96 [ref. 25663], Karmakar 2000:29 [ref. 25662] as mosai, Kurup & Radhakrishnan 2011:228 [ref. 31585], Kottelat 2013:168 [ref. 32989], Khare et al. 2014:[3] [ref. 33361], Hoàng et al. 2015:554 [ref. 33936], Raghavan et al. 2017:593 [ref. 35558], Laskar et al. 2018:[8] [ref. 35834], Bleher 2018:803 [ref. 36647], Pinder et al. 2019:[3] [ref. 36696], Jaafar et al. 2021:3 [ref. 38256], Johnson et al. 2023:5 [ref. 40481]). Current status: Valid as Tor mosal (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Torinae. Distribution: South Asia: upper Ganges and upper Brahmaputra River basins (northern India and Nepal). Habitat: freshwater.