batasio, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:179, 377, Pl. 23 (fig. 60) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Jolpigory, Tista River, northern Bengal, India. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:85 [ref. 29155]. Spelled batasius on plate. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 100 [ref. 37532]. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:42 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Batasio batasio (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:38 [ref. 15970], Burgess 1989:70 [ref. 12860], Mo 1991:141 [ref. 19952], Ataur Rahman 1989:193 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:550 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:559 [ref. 23778], Menon 1999:211 [ref. 24904], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Ng & Kottelat 2001:507 [ref. 25746], Ataur Rahman 2003:213 [ref. 31338], Bhatt & Jayaram 2004:1341 [ref. 27473], Ng 2004:67 [ref. 27646], Ng & Edds 2004:295 [ref. 27993], Vishwanath & Darshan 2006:2162 [ref. 28454], Ng 2006:101 [ref. 28588], Jayaram 2006:81 [ref. 28762], Arunachalam & Muralidharan 2007:2680 [ref. 29123], Ferraris 2007:85 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:147 [ref. 29923], Ng 2008:1 [ref. 29713], Ng 2009:255 [ref. 30216], Darshan et al. 2011:52 [ref. 31332], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Gurung et al. 2013:4883 [ref. 32969], Plamoottil 2015:1806 [ref. 33977]). Current status: Valid as Batasio batasio (Hamilton 1822). Bagridae. Distribution: Ganges River basin: India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Habitat: freshwater.