thermalis, Cobitis Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846:78 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 18; ref. 1011] Hot waters of Cania, Sri Lanka. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-1082 (7). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948:93 [ref. 19574]. •Valid as Lepidocephalus thermalis (Valenciennes 1846) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:527 [ref. 20764], Indra 1991:240 [ref. 24005], Menon 1992:60 [ref. 23970], Singh & Yazdani 1993:200 [ref. 24022], Indra 1993:185 [ref. 24009], Rema Devi 1993:356 [ref. 24007], Rema Devi 1993:206 [ref. 24010], Rema Devi & Ilango 1993:246 [ref. 24017], Indra 1994:418 [ref. 24015], Rema Devi et al. 1996:136 [ref. 24021], Easa & Shaji 1996:305 [ref. 24977] with author as Hamilton, Manimekalan 1998:439 [ref. 24989], Zacharias et al. 1996:40 [ref. 25526], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:155 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:171 [ref. 24760], Rema Devi et al. 1999:158 [ref. 24758], Menon 1999:164 [ref. 24904], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Arunachalam et al. 2001:128 [ref. 25692], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26359], Yadav 2003:17 [ref. 27711], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172]). •Valid as Lepidocephalichthys thermalis (Valenciennes 1846) -- (Pethiyagoda 1991:139 [ref. 20075], Havird & Page 2010:154 [ref. 30739], Havird et al. 2010:9 [ref. 30908], Harant & Bohlen 2010:2444 [ref. 31092], Kottelat 2012:34 [ref. 32367], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Kottelat 2017:713 [ref. 35678], Bleher 2018:314 [ref. 36647]). Current status: Valid as Lepidocephalichthys thermalis (Valenciennes 1846). Cobitidae. Distribution: South Asia: eastward-flowing rivers of the Western Ghats and Peninsular India (India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). Habitat: freshwater.