catla, Cyprinus Hamilton [F.] 1822:287, 387, Pl. 13 (fig. 81) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Rivers and tanks of Bengal. No types known. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 169 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Catla catla (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:35 [ref. 15970], Ataur Rahman 1989:138 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:163 [ref. 20764], Pethiyagoda 1991:58 [ref. 20075], Indra 1991:236 [ref. 24005], Sen 1995:501 [ref. 23778], Coad 1996:84 [ref. 25304], Banik & Choudhury 1996:579 [ref. 24736], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:150 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:168 [ref. 24760], Rema Devi et al. 1999:155 [ref. 24758], Menon 1999:119 [ref. 24904], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Karmakar 2000:28 [ref. 25662], Bănărescu in Bănărescue & Paepke 2002:183 [ref. 25856], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:49 [ref. 26359], Yadav 2003:9 [ref. 27711], Ataur Rahman 2003:157 [ref. 31338], Shrestha 2008:57 [ref. 29923], Gurung et al. 2013:4882 [ref. 32969], Khalaf 2013:4 [ref. 37897]). •Valid as Gibelion catla (Hamilton 1822) -- (Rafique 2000:323 [ref. 25220], Mirza 2003:6 [ref. 27265], Kottelat 2013:107 [ref. 32989], Suresh et al. 2018:94 [ref. 36495], Bleher 2018:538 [ref. 36647], Taki et al. 2021:111 [ref. 39830]). •Valid as Labeo catla (Hamilton 1822) -- (Yang et al. 2012:369 [ref. 33458], Kosygin et al. 2022:652 [ref. 40736], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484], Jamandre 2023:165 [ref. 40455], Gupta et al. 2024:101 [ref. 41453]). Current status: Valid as Labeo catla (Hamilton 1822). Cyprinidae: Labeoninae. Distribution: Southern Asia: Nepal, Bhutan, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Introduced elsewere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.