coitor, Bola Hamilton [F.] 1822:75, 368, Pl. 27 (fig. 24) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River as far as Kanpur and Jumna River at Angra and at Visakhapatum, India. No types known. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 47 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Sciaena coitor (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:41 [ref. 15970]). •Valid as Johnius coitor (Hamilton 1822) -- (Trewavas 1977:418 [ref. 4459], Allen & Swainston 1988:92 [ref. 25477], Ataur Rahman 1989:331 [ref. 24860], Sasaki & Kailola 1991:122 [ref. 19082], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:858 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:119 [ref. 23448], Talwar 1995:99 [ref. 25194], Sasaki 1996:91 [ref. 22156], Allen 1997:144 [ref. 23977], Sasaki in Randall & Lim 2000:621 [ref. 25122], Sasaki 2001:3144 [ref. 26108], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Ataur Rahman 2003:358 [ref. 31338], Bray et al. 2006:1260 [ref. 29091], Shrestha 2008:217 [ref. 29923], Iwatsuki et al. 2012:154 [ref. 31962], Kottelat 2013:358 [ref. 32989], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 26 [ref. 38321], Parenti 2020:21 [ref. 37439], Psomadakis et al. 2020:491 [ref. 37272], Hanafi et al. 2022:407 [ref. 39120], Sasaki 2022:403 [ref. 39862]). Current status: Valid as Johnius coitor (Hamilton 1822). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Bay of Bengal (India and Bangladesh) east to Indonesia, south to eastern Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.