chatareus, Coius Hamilton [F.] 1822:101, 370, Pl. 14 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River estuaries, India. No types known. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 58 [ref. 37532]. •In Toxotes -- (Kottelat 2000:91 [ref. 25865]). •Valid as Toxotes chatareus (Hamilton 1822) -- (Allen 1978:363 [ref. 6922], Roberts 1978:59 [ref. 8886], Allen & Swainston 1988:96 [ref. 25477], Ataur Rahman 1989:332 [ref. 24860], Allen & Leggett 1990:539 [ref. 20887], Larson & Martin 1990:58 [ref. 16606], Pethiyagoda 1991:225 [ref. 20075], Allen 1991:141 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:871 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:120 [ref. 23448], Rainboth 1996:189 [ref. 22772], Allen 1997:146 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:362 [ref. 23967], Martin-Smith & Tan 1998:592 [ref. 23647], Pusey et al. 2000:72 [ref. 24466] as chatereus, Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Allen et al. 2000:113 [ref. 27467], Kottelat 2001:152 [ref. 25780], Unmack 2001:1063 [ref. 25797], Hutchins 2001:35 [ref. 25847], Allen 2001:3215 [ref. 26114], Allen et al. 2002:249 [ref. 25930], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S111 [ref. 27377], Ataur Rahman 2003:360 [ref. 31338], Allen 2004:225 [ref. 27779], Allen et al. 2006:1285 [ref. 29090], Allen et al. 2008:140 [ref. 30265], Satapoomin 2009:179 [ref. 30463], Morgan et al. 2011:17 [ref. 31262], Larson et al. 2013:153 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:363 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:161 [ref. 34464], Satapoomin in Kimura et al. 2015:67 [ref. 34319], Miesen et al. 2016:90 [ref. 34492], Pusey et al. 2017:65 [ref. 35250], Kottelat & Tan 2018:227 [ref. 36201], Taki et al. 2021:385 [ref. 39830], Allen 2022:118 [ref. 39911], Girard et al. 2022:[7] [ref. 39879], Jamandre 2023:174 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Toxotes chatareus (Hamilton 1822). Toxotidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh east to Indonesia, Philippines and New Guinea, south to northern Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.