armatus, Macrones Day [F.] 1865:289, Fig. [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865 (pt 1); ref. 5295] Rivers and occasionally in backwaters, Cochin, India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.7573 (1, non-type); BMNH 1865.7.17.21 (1), 1975.9.30.13 (1, dry), 2016.11.30.820 (1); NMW 45165 (1), ZSI F1084 (1, lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:157 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:294 [ref. 25110], Ferraris 2007:94 [ref. 29155]. Also appeared in Day 1865:187 [ref. 1074]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Valid as Mystus armatus (Day 1865) -- (Burgess 1989:69 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:203 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:557 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:130 [ref. 19952], Indra 1993:186 [ref. 24009], Rema Devi & Ilango 1993:247 [ref. 24017], Rema Devi et al. 1996:136 [ref. 24021], Grant 1999:171 [ref. 24293], Menon 1999:199 [ref. 24904], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Arunachalam et al. 2001:128 [ref. 25692], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26359], Jayaram & Sanyal 2003:36 [ref. 26894], Ataur Rahman 2003:225 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:37 [ref. 28762], Grant 2006 [ref. 28890], Ferraris 2007:94 [ref. 29155], Ng & Kottelat 2009:248 [ref. 30202], Darshan et al. 2011:2181 [ref. 31641], Plamoottil & Abraham 2013:318 [ref. 32984], Plamoottil & Abraham 2013:43 [ref. 32983], Kottelat 2013:262 [ref. 32989], Plamoottil & Abraham 2014:239 [ref. 33431], Plamoottil 2016:1975 [ref. 34462], Plamoottil 2020:119 [ref. 38337]). Current status: Valid as Mystus armatus (Day 1865). Bagridae. Distribution: South Asia: India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan (?). Habitat: freshwater.