lingua, Cynoglossus Hamilton [F.] 1822:32, 365 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Sundarbans, Ganges River estuary, India [Bay of Bengal]. Possibly the type: BMNH 1861.4.2.15 (skin) Based on an unpublished drawing, reproduced by Hora 1929, Pl. 15 (figs 1-2) [ref. 23132]; also reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 22 [ref. 37532]. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:38 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Cynoglossus lingua Hamilton 1822 -- (Menon 1977:65 [ref. 7071], Dor 1984:272 [ref. 29757], Ataur Rahman 1989:33 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:1042 [ref. 20764], Coad 1991:27 [ref. 15702], Kottelat et al. 1993:169 [ref. 23448], Goren & Dor 1994:72 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:601 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:224 [ref. 22772], Evseenko 1998:61 [ref. 23643], Munroe in Randall & Lim 2000:646 [ref. 25122], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:187 [ref. 25703], Munroe 2001:3899 [ref. 26314], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S123 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:11 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:48 [ref. 31338], Kottelat 2013:467 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:223 [ref. 34464], Fricke et al. 2017:84 [ref. 35160], Munroe 2017:29 [ref. 35375] not Red Sea, Ali et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36183], Suresh et al. 2018:322 [ref. 36495], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 12 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:599 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:495 [ref. 39830], Munroe 2022:376 [ref. 40234], Ummath et al. 2024:[10] [ref. 41632]). Current status: Valid as Cynoglossus lingua Hamilton 1822. Cynoglossidae: Cynoglossinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India and Myanmar east to Vietnam and the Philippines. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.