guntea, Cobitis Hamilton [F.] 1822:353, 394 [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Bengal. No types known. Hamilton's original, unpublished illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 219 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Lepidocephalus guntea (Hamilton 1822) -- (Ataur Rahman 1989:157 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:525 [ref. 20764], Menon 1992:54 [ref. 23970], Singh & Yazdani 1993:200 [ref. 24022], Sen 1995:553 [ref. 23778], Sen 1999:199 [ref. 24750], Menon 1999:160 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:324 [ref. 25220], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Mirza 2003:13 [ref. 27265], Yadav 2003:17 [ref. 27711], Ataur Rahman 2003:176 [ref. 31338], Shrestha 2008:137 [ref. 29923]). •Valid as Lepidocephalichthys guntea (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:37 [ref. 15970], Banik & Choudhury 1996:579 [ref. 24736], Doi 1997:14 [ref. 22832], Arunkumar 2000:1095 [ref. 25767], Havird & Page 2010:153 [ref. 30739], Havird et al. 2010:9 [ref. 30908], Kottelat 2012:32 [ref. 32367], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Gurung et al. 2013:4883 [ref. 32969], Kottelat 2013:179 [ref. 32989], Kottelat 2017:713 [ref. 35678], Suresh et al. 2018:114 [ref. 36495], Bleher 2018:306 [ref. 36647], Kosygin et al. 2022:662 [ref. 40736], Shangningam & Kosygin 2022:60 [ref. 39587], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484]). Current status: Valid as Lepidocephalichthys guntea (Hamilton 1822). Cobitidae. Distribution: South Asia: Pakistan, Bhutan, India (northern and central India, northern Western Ghats), Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater.