boro, Ophisurus Hamilton [F.] 1822:20, 363 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Kolkata, India [Calcutta, Ganges River estuary, India]. Neotype: ZSI-F 2167. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:38 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 13 [ref. 37532]. Neotype designated by Mohanty et al. 2023:10 [ref. 40223]. •Valid as Pisodonophis boro (Hamilton 1822) -- (McCosker 1977:83 [ref. 6836], Ataur Rahman 1989:43 [ref. 24860], Castle 1984:39 [ref. 6171], McCosker & Castle 1986:185 [ref. 5690], Allen & Swainston 1988:34 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:120 [ref. 12442], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:86 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:13 [ref. 23448], Kuang in Pan et al. 1991:60 [ref. 23876] as Pisoodonophis, Poll & Gosse 1995:83 [ref. 24781], Rainboth 1996:58 [ref. 22772], Allen 1997:56 [ref. 23977], George et al. 1999:328 [ref. 24214], Smith & McCosker 1999:1669 [ref. 24715], Nakabo 2000:224 [ref. 25086], McCosker in Randall & Lim 2000:586 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:118 [ref. 25191], Sakai et al. 2001:85 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:17 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:224 [ref. 26001], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:49 [ref. 26359], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S95 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:6 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:58 [ref. 31338], Tang & Zhang 2004:20 [ref. 27889], McCosker et al. 2006:273 [ref. 29006], Zhang et al. 2010:353 [ref. 31511], Fricke et al. 2011:352 [ref. 31342], Ji & Kim 2011:61 [ref. 31152], Larson et al. 2013:27 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:47 [ref. 32989], McCosker 2014:339 [ref. 33288], Psomadakis et al. 2015:148 [ref. 34104], Ho et al. 2015:174 [ref. 34130], Motomura et al. 2017:33 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:45 [ref. 35805], Bleher 2018:78 [ref. 36647], Hibino et al. 2019:303 [ref. 36433], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 5 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:278 [ref. 37272], Koreeda et al. 2021:5 [ref. 38815], Taki et al. 2021:49 [ref. 39830], McCosker 2022:128 [ref. 39686], Jamandre 2023:160 [ref. 40455], Mohanty et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40223]). Current status: Valid as Pisodonophis boro (Hamilton 1822). Ophichthidae: Ophichthinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: north-eastern coast of India [specimens from other parts of the Indo-West Pacific are probably different species: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles and Madagascar east to Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Kyushu (southern Japan), south to northern Australia]. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
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