bacaila, Cyprinus Hamilton [F.] 1822:265, 384, Pl. 8 (fig. 76) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Rivers of India. No types known. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 150 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Oxygaster bacaila (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:36 [ref. 15970], Banik & Choudhury 1996:579 [ref. 24736]). •Valid as Salmophasia bacaila (Hamilton 1822) -- (Mirza 2003:4 [ref. 27265]). •Valid as Salmostoma bacaila (Hamilton 1822) -- (Coad 1981:12 [ref. 22348], Ataur Rahman 1989:81 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:321 [ref. 20764], Indra 1993:181 [ref. 24009], Sen 1995:57 [ref. 31338], Arunachalam et al. 2003:439 [ref. 41129], Ataur Rahman 2003:97 [ref. 31338], Shrestha 2008:87 [ref. 29923], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Suresh et al. 2018:112 [ref. 36495], Bleher 2018:774 [ref. 36647], Kosygin et al. 2022:659 [ref. 40736], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484], Çiçek et al. 2023:29 [ref. 40326], Gupta et al. 2024:101 [ref. 41453]). Current status: Valid as Salmostoma bacaila (Hamilton 1822). Danionidae: Chedrinae. Distribution: South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh; ?Thailand. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.