Glyptothorax dorsalis Vinciguerra 1890

Alfred W. Thomson & Lawrence M. Page, 2006, Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes)., Zootaxa 1345, pp. 1-96 : 45

Glyptothorax dorsalis Vinciguerra 1890

Glyptothorax dorsalis Vinciguerra 1890 : 246, pl. 7 (fig. 4). Type locality: Meetan [Salween drainage], Upper Myanmar [Burma] . Holotype: MSNG 14417 .

Glyptothorax minutus Hora 1921 : 180, fig. 1. Type locality: Imphal stream near Karong [= Kameng] [Irrawaddy drainage], Manipur Valley , India. Syntypes: ZSI (4).

Distribution: Irrawaddy and Salween drainages, Myanmar and China. (Hora, 1921a; Kottelat, 1989; Chu et al., 1999).

Remarks: This species has been considered a synonym of G. platypogonoides by many authors. We consider this species valid and tentatively consider all records of G. platypogonoides from India and Myanmar to be based on G. dorsalis .