garua, Silurus Hamilton [F.] 1822:156, 375, Pl. 21 (fig. 50) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Rivers of Gangetic provinces. Possible type: BMNH 1858.8.15.127 (1). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:357 [ref. 29155]. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 87 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Clupisoma garua (Hamilton 1822) -- (Shrestha 1978:39 [ref. 15970], Burgess 1989:98 [ref. 12860], Ataur Rahman 1989:185 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:596 [ref. 20764], Sen 1995:567 [ref. 23778], Menon 1999:222 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:326 [ref. 25220], Karmakar 2000:32 [ref. 25662], Mirza 2003:21 [ref. 27265], Ataur Rahman 2003:205 [ref. 31338], Ferraris 2004:5 [ref. 27498], Chen et al. 2005:569 [ref. 28316], Jayaram 2006:125 [ref. 28762], Ferraris 2007:357 [ref. 29155], Shrestha 2008:156 [ref. 29923], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Kosygin et al. 2022:665 [ref. 40736], Tudu et al. 2022:43 [ref. 40484]). Current status: Valid as Clupisoma garua (Hamilton 1822). Ailiidae. Distribution: South Asia: Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater.