Bagarius yarrelli (Sykes 1839)

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Bagarius yarrelli (Sykes 1839)

Bagrus yarrelli Sykes 1839 : 163. Type locality: Mota Mola at Poona [Krishna River drainage] , Deccan, India. No types known.

Pimelodus carnaticus Jerdon 1849 : 341. Type locality: Bowany River, [Cauvery [=Kaveri] drainage] s. India . No types known. Synonymized with Bagarius yarrelli by Day (1977a).

Bagarius lica Volz 1903 : 557. Type locality: Moresi River [Musi drainage] at Palembang , Sumatra, Indonesia. Holotype: NMBE. First synonymized with Bagarius bagarius by Weber & de Beaufort(1913). Determined by Roberts (1983) to be a synonym of Bagarius yarrelli .

Bagarius nieuwenhuisii Popta 1904 : 190. Type locality: Bo River, Mahakam basin, Central Borneo . No types known. First synonymized with Bagarius bagarius by Weber & de Beaufort (1913). Determined by Roberts (1983) to be a synonym of Bagarius yarrelli .

Distribution: Krishna, Godavary, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Chao Phraya, Mekong and drainages throughout the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia (Roberts, 1983 (in part); Kottelat, 1989; Talwar & Jingran, 1991; Rainboth, 1996; Jayaram, 1999 (in part); Karmakar, 2000; Kottelat, 2001a). It has also been reported from the Indus drainage (Talwar & Jingran, 1991; Jayaram, 1999; Karmakar, 2000) and Cauvery drainage in southern India (as Pimelodus carnaticus ) by Jerdon (1849). It was reported as B. bagarius in the Godavary drainage by David (1963). This species is replaced by B. rutilus in the Red River drainage in Vietnam and China (Ng & Kottelat, 2000; Kottelat, 2001a; Kottelat, 2001b).