bagarius, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:186, 378, Pl. 7 (fig. 62) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ganges River, India [rivers at Kolkata]. Syntypes: BMNH 1857.6.13.151 [ex Zool. Soc.] (1). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:383 [ref. 29155]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 105 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Bagarius bagarius (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:38 [ref. 15970], Burgess 1989:133 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:222 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:622 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:571 [ref. 23778], Zhu 1995:151 [ref. 25213], Rainboth 1996:160 [ref. 22772], Vu & Nguyen 1997:27 [ref. 26438], Kottelat 1998:105 [ref. 23436], Yue & Chen 1998:231 [ref. 26415], Chu in Chu et al. 1999:116 [ref. 24534], Menon 1999:234 [ref. 24904], Ng & Kottelat 2000:11 [ref. 25042], Freyhof et al. 2000:96 [ref. 25184], Rafique 2000:325 [ref. 25220], Karmakar 2000:33 [ref. 25662] as Begarius begarius, Yadav 2000:41 [ref. 25661], Kottelat 2001:54 [ref. 25482], Kottelat 2001:135 [ref. 25780], Rafique et al. 2003:97 [ref. 27173], Mirza 2003:18 [ref. 27265], Yadav 2003:21 [ref. 27711], Ataur Rahman 2003:245 [ref. 31338], Jayaram 2006:202 [ref. 28762], Thomson & Page 2006:27 [ref. 28859], Ferraris 2007:383 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:166 [ref. 29923], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Gurung et al. 2013:4884 [ref. 32969], Kottelat 2013:221 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:170 [ref. 34477], Fu et al. 2021:9572 [ref. 39347], Ng & Kottelat 2021:140 [ref. 38128], Taki et al. 2021:303 [ref. 39830], Kosygin et al. 2022:663 [ref. 40736], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484]). Current status: Valid as Bagarius bagarius (Hamilton 1822). Sisoridae: Sisorinae. Distribution: South Asia and Southeast Asia: Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan (China) and Cambodia. Habitat: freshwater.