bato, Gobius Hamilton [F.] 1822:40, Pl. 37 (fig. 10) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River estuaries, India. No types known. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 26 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Apocryptes bato (Hamilton 1822) -- (Murdy 1989:7 [ref. 13628], Ataur Rahman 1989:292 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:951 [ref. 20764], Khan 2003:10 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:318 [ref. 31338], Murdy 2011:104 [ref. 31728], Kottelat 2013:399 [ref. 32989], Murdy & Jaafar 2017:8 [ref. 35561], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 14 [ref. 38321], Parenti 2021:386 [ref. 38603]). Current status: Valid as Apocryptes bato (Hamilton 1822). Oxudercidae: Oxudercinae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf east to Myanmar. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.