maculatus, Silurus Thunberg [C. P.] 1792:31, Pl. 1 (fig. 2, 2 views) [Kongliga Vetenskaps-Academiens Handlingar, Stockholm v. 13 (for 1792); ref. 17916] China; Japan. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:35 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Tachysurus maculatus (Thunberg 1792) -- (Jayaram & Dhanze 1979:48 [ref. 6800]). •Valid as Arius maculatus (Thunberg 1792) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:43 [ref. 19754], Sawada in Masuda et al. 1984:60 [ref. 6441], Burgess 1989:169 [ref. 12860], Kottelat et al. 1993:80 [ref. 23448], Randall 1995:75 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:158 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:164 [ref. 22772], Kailola 1999:1854 [ref. 24732], Tan & Ng 1999:296 [ref. 24254], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:239 [ref. 24754], Nakabo 2000:281 [ref. 25086], Kailola in Randall & Lim 2000:589 [ref. 25122], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:185 [ref. 25703], Nakabo 2002:281 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:187, 525 [ref. 26218], Ng 2003:10 [ref. 27208], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S97 [ref. 27377], Kailola 2004:127 [ref. 28108], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:18 [ref. 29031], Ferraris 2007:35 [ref. 29155], Marceniuk et al. 2012:665 [ref. 32225], Kottelat 2013:246 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:43 [ref. 34464], Psomadakis et al. 2015:163 [ref. 34104], Sulaiman et al. 2018:44 [ref. 35802], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 8 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:306 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:280 [ref. 39830], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:71 [ref. 41223], Kailola 2022:188 [ref. 39697], Hasan et al. 2023:2209 [ref. 40412], Marceniuk et al. 2023:29 [ref. 40422]). Current status: Valid as Arius maculatus (Thunberg 1792). Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan east to Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, north to China. Habitat: brackish, marine.