limbatus, Ophicephalus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:no p., Pl. 201 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] Western Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-0396. Type information: Roberts 1993:40 [ref. 21799], Kottelat 2000:95-96 [ref. 25864] Name available from plate. Table of contents and "avis au relieur" indicate Ophicephalus marginatus as intended name for plate: corresponding to description on p. 411. •Synonym of Channa orientalis (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Menon 1999:275 [ref. 24904]). •Synonym of Channa gachua (Hamilton 1822) -- (Roberts 1993:40 [ref. 21799], Ng et al. 1999:57 [ref. 24286], Courtenay & Williams 2004:69 [ref. 27545], Kottelat 2013:460 [ref. 32989], Nguyen et al. 2015:53 [ref. 36456]). •Valid as Channa limbata (Cuvier 1831) -- (Conte-Grand et al. 2017:17 [ref. 35598], Lalramliana et al. 2018:174 [ref. 36027], Praveenraj et al. 2018:10 [ref. 36419], Rüber et al. 2019:[4] [ref. 36913], Britz et al. 2019:594 [ref. 37016], Jamaluddin et al. 2022:[6] [ref. 39245] cf. limbata, Chan et al. 2023:142 [ref. 40365], Britz et al. 2024:22 [ref. 40761]). Current status: Valid as Channa limbata (Cuvier 1831). Channidae. Distribution: East Asia, Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia to Vietnam and China. Introduced in Hong Kong (China). Habitat: freshwater.