barca, Ophiocephalus Hamilton [F.] 1822:67, 367, Pl. 35 (fig. 20) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Brahmaputra River near Goyalpara [Goalpara], Assam, India. No types known. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:38 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 42 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Channa barca (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ataur Rahman 1989:67 [ref. 24860], Vierke 1991:20 [ref. 16625], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:1016 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:593 [ref. 23778], Menon 1999:272 [ref. 24904], Karmakar 2000:35 [ref. 25662], Ataur Rahman 2003:82 [ref. 31338], Courtenay & Williams 2004:61 [ref. 27545], Shrestha 2008:232 [ref. 29923], Vishwanath & Geetakumari 2009:98 [ref. 30105], Knight 2016:8588 [ref. 34348], Gurumayum & Tamang 2016:183 [ref. 35232], Praveenraj et al. 2018:150 [ref. 36434], Dey et al. 2019:502 [ref. 36484], Dey et al. 2019:302 [ref. 36760], Rüber et al. 2019:[3] [ref. 36913], Praveenraj et al. 2020:945 [ref. 38037]). Current status: Valid as Channa barca (Hamilton 1822). Channidae. Distribution: South Asia: northern India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater.