temminkii, Helostoma Cuvier [G.] (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) 1829:228 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] Mollucas [in error] [Java, Indonesia]. Syntypes: RMNH 136 (1, skeleton), 1081 (1, stuffed). Available from footnote tied to description above. Appeared in more detail in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:341, Pl. 194 [ref. 4881] where species was spelled temminckii. Corrected to temminckii as an inadvertant error. Kottelat (2013) provides information on types. •Valid as Helostoma temminckii Cuvier 1829 -- (Vierke 1986:100 [ref. 36452], Vierke 1988:143 [ref. 36453], Roberts 1989:178 [ref. 6439], Pethiyagoda 1991:272 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:1010 [ref. 20764], Roberts 1993:39 [ref. 21799], Kottelat et al. 1993:159 [ref. 23448], Kottelat & Lim 1996:248 [ref. 23210], Rainboth 1996:215 [ref. 22772], Wakiyama et al. 1997:100 [ref. 25519], Fuller et al. 1999:470 [ref. 25838], Freyhof et al. 2000:97 [ref. 25184], Britz & Cambray 2001:280 [ref. 25647], Tan & Ng 2005:116 [ref. 28283], Kottelat & Widjanarti 2005:165 [ref. 28284], Kottelat 2013:447 [ref. 32989], Sulaiman et al. 2018:37 [ref. 35802], Ng et al. 2019:534 [ref. 36606], Taki et al. 2021:403 [ref. 39830], Ahmad et al. 2023:123 [ref. 41243], Jamandre 2023:159 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Helostoma temminckii Cuvier 1829. Helostomatidae. Distribution: Southeast Asia: Sundaland to Thailand. Introduced in Vietnam and Philippines Habitat: freshwater.