seenghala, Platystoma Sykes [W. H.] 1839:164 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1838 (pt 6) (for 27 Nov. 1838); ref. 18720] Deccan, India. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:107 [ref. 29155]. Appeared first as above, then in Sykes 1839:61 [ref. 4306]; more complete treatment in Sykes 1841:371, Pl. 65 (fig. 2) [ref. 18868]. •Valid as Mystus seenghala (Sykes 1839) -- (Shrestha 1978:38 [ref. 15970], Ataur Rahman 1989:198 [ref. 24860]). •Valid as Aorichthys seenghala (Sykes 1839) -- (Burgess 1989:70 [ref. 12860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:548 [ref. 20764], Mo 1991:129 [ref. 19952], Mirza et al. 1992:211 [ref. 21080], Sen 1995:558 [ref. 23778], Banik & Choudhury 1996:579 [ref. 24736], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:171 [ref. 24760], Menon 1999:209 [ref. 24904], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Yadav 2003:18 [ref. 27711], Shrestha 2008:146 [ref. 29923]). •Valid as Sperata seenghala (Sykes 1839) -- (Ferraris & Runge 1999:416 [ref. 24039], Mirza 2000:356 [ref. 25207], Ataur Rahman 2003:218 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:31 [ref. 28762], Ferraris 2007:107 [ref. 29155], Kottelat 2013:266 [ref. 32989], Kumar et al. 2020:[8] [ref. 37905], Kosygin et al. 2022:668 [ref. 40736], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484], Çiçek et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40326]). Current status: Valid as Sperata seenghala (Sykes 1839). Bagridae. Distribution: South Asia: Ganges River system and peninsular India (Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.