barila, Cyprinus Hamilton [F.] 1822:267, 384 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Roopgunga, Northern Bengal, India. No types known. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:44 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 151 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Opsarius barila (Hamilton 1822) -- (Moyon & Arunkumar 2019:5 [ref. 37054]). •Valid as Barilius barila (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:34 [ref. 15970], Kuang in Chu & Chen 1989:21 [ref. 13584], Ataur Rahman 1989:95 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:343 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:524 [ref. 23778], Zhu 1995:24 [ref. 25213], Chen & Chu in Chen et al. 1998:29 [ref. 23878], Menon 1999:13 [ref. 24904], Arunkumar & Tombi Singh 2000:248 [ref. 25167], Karmakar 2000:27 [ref. 25662], Selim & Vishwanath 2002:267 [ref. 26593], Ataur Rahman 2003:112 [ref. 31338], Shrestha 2008:94 [ref. 29923], Nath et al. 2010:24 [ref. 33488] with author as Hamilton-Buchanan, Conway et al. 2011:1755 [ref. 31594], Mayanglambam & Vishwanath 2012:2363 [ref. 31817], Tejavej 2012:158 [ref. 32353], Kottelat 2013:81 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al.2016:48 [ref. 34477], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172] as barana, Bleher 2018:346 [ref. 36647], Kumari et al. 2019:14812 [ref. 37140], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484], Arunkumar et al. 2023:72 [ref. 40043], Kumari et al. 2024:8 [ref. 40818]). Current status: Valid as Barilius barila (Hamilton 1822). Danionidae: Chedrinae. Distribution: South Asia: eastern Himalaya Foothills (China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan). IUCN (2010): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater.