fasciatus, Trichogaster Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:164, Pl. 36 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Tranquebar [Tharangambadi], India. Holotype (unique): apparently lost. Type catalog: Paepke 1994:317 [ref. 21516]. The genus Trichogaster if feminine, so species is correctly fasciata. •Valid as Polyacanthus fasciatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Menon 1999:297 [ref. 24904]). •Valid as Colisa fasciatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Shrestha 1978:41 [ref. 15970], Ataur Rahman 1989:280 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:1006 [ref. 20764], Indra 1994:426 [ref. 24015], Sen 1995:591 [ref. 23778], Rema Devi et al. 1999:164 [ref. 24758], Fuller et al. 1999:472 [ref. 25838], Karmakar 2000:35 [ref. 25662], Ataur Rahman 2003:305 [ref. 31338], Vishwanath & Linthoingambi 2005:467 [ref. 28251], Shrestha 2008:228 [ref. 29923]). •Valid as Colisa fasciata (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Vierke 1986:64 [ref. 36452], Vierke 1988:95 [ref. 36453], Rafique 2000:327 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2003:24 [ref. 27265]). •Valid as Trichogaster fasciatus Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Derijst 1997:222 [ref. 23499], Britz 2004:7 [ref. 30110], Töpfer 2008:49 [ref. 30111], Shangningam & Kosygin 2022:61 [ref. 39587] as faciatus). •Valid as Trichogaster fasciata Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Ahmed et al. 2013:287 [ref. 32872], Kottelat 2013:457 [ref. 32989], Suresh et al. 2018:309 [ref. 36495], Knight et al. 2022:[3] [ref. 39561]). Current status: Valid as Trichogaster fasciata Bloch & Schneider 1801. Osphronemidae: Trichogastrinae. Distribution: Southern Asia: Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Habitat: freshwater.