tile, Muraenophis Hamilton [F.] 1822:18, 363 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Calcutta, Ganges River system, India. No types known. Type catalog: Böhlke & Smith 2002:151 [ref. 26380]. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:38 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 11 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Lycodontis tile (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ataur Rahman 1989:42 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:79 [ref. 20764], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:184 [ref. 25703], Khan 2003:6 [ref. 27710]). •Valid as Gymnothorax tile (Hamilton 1822) -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:10 [ref. 23448], Böhlke et al. 1999:1657 [ref. 24692], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:585 [ref. 25122], Böhlke & Smith 2002:151 [ref. 26380], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S95 [ref. 27377], Ataur Rahman 2003:57 [ref. 31338], Mundy 2005:124 [ref. 28379], Tan & Kottelat 2009:25 [ref. 30261], Allen & Erdmann 2012:94 [ref. 31980], Smith 2012:28 [ref. 32155], Kottelat 2013:42 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:20 [ref. 33932], Hibino in Kimura et al. 2015:10 [ref. 34319], Miesen et al. 2016:81 [ref. 34492], Mohapatra et al. 2017:589 [ref. 35418], Bleher 2018:72 [ref. 36647], Sumod et al. 2019:364 [ref. 36895], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 5 [ref. 38321], Nashad et al. 2020:370 [ref. 37900], Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412], Allen & Erdmann 2024:104 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Gymnothorax tile (Hamilton 1822). Muraenidae: Muraeninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India, Bangladesh and Andaman Islands (India) east to Indonesia, Philippines and New Guinea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.