tardoore, Pristigaster Cuvier [G.] 1829:321 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] Puducherry, India Neotype: MNHN 0000-1688. Type catalog: Bertin 1940:294 [ref. 293], Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:25 [ref. 9739]. Available from footnote as, "Pr. tardoore, N., Russel, 193." Neotype designated by Whitehead 1967:122 [ref. 6464]. •Valid as Opisthopterus tardoore (Cuvier 1829) -- (Whitehead & Bauchot 1985:25 [ref. 9739], Whitehead 1985:294 [ref. 5141], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:123 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:19 [ref. 23448], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:213 [ref. 24016], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:121 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:63 [ref. 22772], Randall 1995:69 [ref. 22896], Munroe et al. 1999:1767 [ref. 24728], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:237 [ref. 24754], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:587 [ref. 25122], Zhang 2001:117 [ref. 26586], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:7 [ref. 27710], Kottelat 2013:51 [ref. 32989], Psomadakis et al. 2015:162 [ref. 34104], Suresh et al. 2018:90 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:27 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 6 [ref. 38321], Anderson 2022:164 [ref. 39690]). Current status: Valid as Opisthopterus tardoore (Cuvier 1829). Pristigasteridae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman east to western Indonesia. Habitat: brackish, marine.