balitora, Cyprinus Hamilton [F.] 1822:348, 394 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Bangladesh, Dinajpur, Mahanda River at Tetulia, near location of Dak Bungalow, 26°28'59.9"N, 88°19'59.9"E. Neotype: UMMZ 248758. Neotype designated by Conway & Mayden 2008:216 [ref. 29967]. Information on type locality (originally Gualpara, Assam, India) see Britz 2019:46 [ref. 37532]. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 215 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Psilorhynchus balitora (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ataur Rahman 1989:74 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:438 [ref. 20764], Yazdani et al. 1993:14 [ref. 21844], Vishwanath & Manojkumar 1995:251 [ref. 22175], Sen 1995:540 [ref. 23778], Sen 1999:197 [ref. 24750], Menon 1999:152 [ref. 24904], Karmakar 2000:30 [ref. 25662], Ataur Rahman 2003:90 [ref. 31338], Conway & Kottelat 2007:47 [ref. 29430], Shrestha 2008:123 [ref. 29923], Arunachalam & Muralidharan 2008:410 [ref. 29965], Conway & Mayden 2008:215 [ref. 29967] with revised range, Conway & Kottelat 2010:266 [ref. 30943], Conway & Britz 2010:31 [ref. 30958], Conway et al. 2012:193 [ref. 32316], Shangningam & Vishwanath 2013:62 [ref. 32800], Shangningam & Vishwanath 2013:389 [ref. 32820], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Kottelat 2013:172 [ref. 32989], Shangningam & Vishwanath 2013:[5] [ref. 32903], Gurung et al. 2013:4883 [ref. 32969], Lalramliana et al. 2014:270 [ref. 33295], Conway & Britz 2015:353 [ref. 33744], Lalramliana et al. 2015:177 [ref. 33814], Conway & Pinion 2016:590 [ref. 34529], Arunachalam et al. 2018:223 [ref. 35779], Bleher 2018:812 [ref. 36647], Dey et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37288], Dey et al. 2020:108 [ref. 37413], Shangningam & Kosygin 2021:323 [ref. 38689]). Current status: Valid as Psilorhynchus balitora (Hamilton 1822). Psilorhynchidae. Distribution: Ganges-Brahmaputra basins: India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal [not Myanmar]. Habitat: freshwater.