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 1345 1 96 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)