conta, Pimelodus Hamilton [F.] 1822:191, 378 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Sanashygotta, Mahamanda River, northeastern Bengal. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:384 [ref. 29155]. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:42 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 107 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Conta conta (Hamilton 1822) -- (Tilak 1987:84 [ref. 6794], Burgess 1989:132 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:208 [ref. 24860], Tilak 1990:293 [ref. 24003], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:624 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:572 [ref. 23778], Menon 1999:257 [ref. 24904], Karmakar 2000:33 [ref. 25662], Ataur Rahman 2003:230 [ref. 31338], Ng 2005:26 [ref. 28217], Jayaram 2006:278 [ref. 28762], Thomson & Page 2006:13 [ref. 28859], Ferraris 2007:384 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:168 [ref. 29923]). Current status: Valid as Conta conta (Hamilton 1822). Sisoridae: Sisorinae. Distribution: Ganges and Brahmaputra River basins: Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater.