canius, Plotosus Hamilton [F.] 1822:142, 374, Pl. 15 (fig. 44) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Southern Bengal, India. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:350 [ref. 29155]. See van Oijen et al. 2009:277 [ref. 30423]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 80 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Plotosus canius Hamilton 1822 -- (Gomon & Taylor 1982:2 [ref. 8475], Paxton et al. 1989:225 [ref. 12442], Burgess 1989:180 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:173 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:713 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:82 [ref. 23448], Kottelat & Lim 1996:243 [ref. 23210], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:164 [ref. 27969] with author as Hamilton-Buchanan, Rainboth 1996:169 [ref. 22772], Ferraris 1999:1883 [ref. 24731], Tan & Ng 1999:297 [ref. 24254], Ferraris in Randall & Lim 2000:589 [ref. 25122], Kottelat 2001:143 [ref. 25780], Hutchins 2001:21 [ref. 25847], Ng & Sparks 2002:564 [ref. 26377], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S97 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:8 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:192 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:321 [ref. 28762], Hoese & Gates 2006:363 [ref. 28997], Ferraris 2007:350 [ref. 29155], Yoshino & Kishimoto 2008:7 [ref. 29565], Prokofiev 2008:671 [ref. 29826], Kimura in Yoshino & Kimura 2009:32 [ref. 30443], Larson et al. 2013:43 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:241 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:41 [ref. 34464], Miesen et al. 2016:82 [ref. 34492], Motomura et al. 2017:48 [ref. 35490], Suresh et al. 2018:139 [ref. 36495], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 7 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:305 [ref. 37272], Hortle & Phommanivong 2021:2 [ref. 38425], Taki et al. 2021:243 [ref. 39830], Holleman 2022:200 [ref. 39698]). Current status: Valid as Plotosus canius Hamilton 1822. Plotosidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: west coast of India east to Papua New Guinea, north to Vietnam and Philippines south to northern Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.