bimaculatus, Gnathopogon Bleeker [P.] 1863:245 [Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde. v. 15; ref. 17011] Sri Lanka. Syntypes: (5). Also appeared in Bleeker 1864:17, Pl. 4 (fig. 1) [ref. 13925]. •Valid as Puntius bimaculatus (Bleeker 1863) -- (Pethiyagoda 1991:96 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:259 [ref. 20764], Menon & Rema Devi 1992:220 [ref. 20007], Rema Devi 1993:197 [ref. 24010], Manimekalan 1998:434 [ref. 24989], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:152 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:169 [ref. 24760], Menon 1999:87 [ref. 24904], Arunachalam et al. 2000:293 [ref. 25165], Arunachalam et al. 2001:128 [ref. 25692], Kullander & Fang 2005:297 [ref. 28193], Pethiyagoda et al. 2008:209 [ref. 29986], Pethiyagoda et al. 2012:73 [ref. 32071], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172], Bleher 2018:708 [ref. 36647], Ren et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37805]). •Valid as Plesiopuntius bimaculatus (Bleeker 1863) -- (Sudasinghe et al. 2023:12 [ref. 40281]). Current status: Valid as Plesiopuntius bimaculatus (Bleeker 1863). Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae. Distribution: South Asia: Sri Lanka and southern India (Western and Eastern Ghats). Habitat: freshwater.