Pimelodus hara Hamilton 1822
Pimelodus asperus McClelland 1844
Hara hara
Erethistes hara
Hara saharsai Datta Munshi & Srivastava 1988
Hara hara
Erethistes hara
Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes).
Alfred W. Thomson
Lawrence M. Page
Zootaxa
2006
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Insecta
Curculionidae
Erethistes
Animalia
Coleoptera
15
Arthropoda
species
hara
Pimelodus hara Hamilton 1822: 190, 378. Type locality: Hooghly River south of Ranaghat, India. Neotype: UMMZ244697.Neotype designated by Ng & Kottelat (2005). Pimelodus asperus McClelland 1844: 404, pl. 24 (fig. 2). Type locality: Hooghly River south of Ranaghat, India. Neotype: UMMZ244697.Neotype designated by Ng & Kottelat (2005). Synonymized with Hara hara(= Erethistes hara) by Ng & Kottelat (2005). Hara saharsai Datta Munshi & Srivastava 1988: 265, fig. 5. Type locality: Kosi Belt [Ganges drainages], n. Bihar, India. Syntypes: Bhagalpur Univ., Dept. Zool. Mus.67(13).Also appeared as new in Srivastava & Datta Munshi in Srivastava 1989:121, fig. 1. Synonymized with Hara hara(= Erethistes hara) by Talwar & Jhingran (1991).
Distribution: Ganges, Brahmaputra and Irrawaddy drainages, northeast India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar (Jayaram, 1981; Lipton, 1985; Ataur Rahman, 1989; Mamnur Rashid etal., 1997). Most reports from Myanmar appear to be based on Erethistes filamentosus. We have examined specimens from the Brahmaputra drainage in Bangladesh, and the Irrawaddy drainage in northern Myanmar.
923901442
UMMZ
India
Type locality: Hooghly River south of Ranaghat
UMMZ 244697
Neotype
923901436
UMMZ
India
Type locality: Hooghly River south of Ranaghat
UMMZ 244697
Neotype (of Pimelodus asperus McClelland)
923901417
Bhagalpur Univ., Dept. Zool. Mus.
India
Type locality: Kosi Belt [Ganges drainages], n. Bihar
Bhagalpur Univ., Dept. Zool. Mus. 67
Bihar
Syntypes (of Hara saharsai)