ranga, Chanda Hamilton [F.] 1822:113, 371, Pl. 16 (fig. 38) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Gangetic provinces, India. No types known. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 66 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Pseudambassis ranga (Hamilton 1822) -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:805 [ref. 20764], Datta & Chaudhuri 1993:4 [ref. 21980], Sen 1995:585 [ref. 23778], Arunachalam & Sankaranarayanan 1999:336 [ref. 24216], Menon 1999:285 [ref. 24904], Karmakar 2000:35 [ref. 25662], Arunachalam et al. 2001:129 [ref. 25692], Yadav 2003:24 [ref. 27711], Ataur Rahman 2003:371 [ref. 31338], Shrestha 2008:215 [ref. 29923], Conway et al. 2011:1756 [ref. 31594]). •Valid as Parambassis ranga (Hamilton 1822) -- (Roberts 1995:279 [ref. 22559], Musikasinthorn 1998:203 [ref. 23882], Rafique et al. 2003:98 [ref. 27173], Mirza 2003:23 [ref. 27265], Geetakumari 2012:59 [ref. 31985], Geetakumari & Basudha 2012:3327 [ref. 32278], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Kottelat 2013:322 [ref. 32989], Mayanglambam & Vishwanath 2015:587 [ref. 34026], Suresh et al. 2018:181 [ref. 36495], Kosygin et al. 2022:674 [ref. 40736], Moazzam & Osmany 2022:538 [ref. 39926], Tudu et al. 2022:44 [ref. 40484], Chan et al. 2023:142 [ref. 40365]). •Valid as Chanda ranga Hamilton 1822 -- (Shrestha 1978:40 [ref. 15970], Banik & Choudhury 1996:579 [ref. 24736], Ataur Rahman 1989:340 [ref. 24860], Rema Devi et al. 1999:162 [ref. 24758], Rafique 2000:326 [ref. 25220], Ghazali et al. 2024:8 [ref. 40872]). Current status: Valid as Chanda ranga Hamilton 1822. Ambassidae. Distribution: South Asia: Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Malaysia. Introduced in Hong Kong (China). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.