cachius, Cyprinus Hamilton [F.] 1822:258, 384 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Sooty, Ganges River system, India. No types known. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:44 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 144 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Chela cachius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Bănărescu 1968:54 [ref. 215], Ataur Rahman 1989:83 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:313 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:520 [ref. 23778], Rema Devi et al. 1999:153 [ref. 24758], Sen 1999:194 [ref. 24750], Menon 1999:35 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:323 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2000:355 [ref. 25207], Karmakar 2000:27 [ref. 25662], Arunkumar 2000:121 [ref. 30363], Mirza 2003:3 [ref. 27265], Rafique et al. 2003:97 [ref. 27173], Yadav 2003:6 [ref. 27711] as cashius, Ataur Rahman 2003:100 [ref. 31338], Sado & Kimura 2005:20 [ref. 28197], Shrestha 2008:85 [ref. 29923], Conway et al. 2011:1755 [ref. 31594], Kottelat 2013:87 [ref. 32989], Knight & Remi Devi 2014:159 [ref. 33513], Suresh et al. 2018:95 [ref. 36495], Bleher 2018:377 [ref. 36647], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484]). Current status: Valid as Chela cachius (Hamilton 1822). Danionidae: Danioninae. Distribution: Asia: Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.