indicus, Saurus Day [F.] 1873:526 [The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology v. 11; ref. 17368] Madras, India [Indian Ocean]. Lectotype: ZSI F2337. Paralectotypes (2) and/or Day specimens: AMS B.7672 (1, non-type); RMNH 8817 (1), 2761 (1). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:102 [ref. 20743] as holotype, Whitehead & Talwar 1976:154 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:298 [ref. 25110]. Type designated by Norman 1935:114 [ref. 13913] but see Cressey 1981:23 [ref. 5574] for discussion about types. •Valid as Synodus indicus (Day 1873) -- (Cressey 1981:21 [ref. 5574], Dor 1984:47 [ref. 29757], Cressey 1986:272 [ref. 6289], Allen & Swainston 1988:36 [ref. 25477], Budnichenko 1989:241 [ref. 13371], Paxton et al. 1989:238 [ref. 12442], Manilo 1992:21 [130] [ref. 39140], Goren & Dor 1994:12 [ref. 25356], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:272 [ref. 21953], Allen 1997:60 [ref. 23977], Anderson et al. 1998:21 [ref. 23611], Russell 1999:1942 [ref. 24747], Hutchins 2001:20 [ref. 25847], Chen 2002:57 [ref. 26587], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S98 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:115 [ref. 28072], Hoese & Gates 2006:468 [ref. 28997], Larson et al. 2013:46 [ref. 32988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:170 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2018:70 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:35 [ref. 36273], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 9 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:315 [ref. 37272], Russell 2022:217 [ref. 39701]). Current status: Valid as Synodus indicus (Day 1873). Synodontidae: Synodontinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa and Seychelles east to Indonesia, north to Philippines, south to northern Western Australia. Habitat: marine.