In the description of B. caudiocellatus, Chu (1984) stated that Danio monshiensis Yang & Hwang is a junior
synonym of Barilius barila Hamilton 1822 (Fig. 8B) based on Mukerji’s study in 1934 that synonymized B.
barnoides with B. barila (Chu 1984). Mukerji (1934) based his statement on the presence of both rostral and
maxillary barbels on a paratype [That should be a syntype since holotype and paratypes of B. barnoides were not
assigned in the original description (Vinciguerra 1890)] of B. barnoides and Day’s (1878) specimen of B. barila,
and on the fact that the shape of the infraorbital bones of both species, previously used by Day (1878) as a
differentiating character for Barilius, are variable. However, many species of Barilius have both pairs of barbels
(Talwar & Jhingran 1991, Tejavej 2010).