Champia indica Børgesen, 1933b: 120–122, fig. 7, pl. VI (type locality: Port Okha, Gujarat, India).—Børgesen, 1934b: 40.— Varma, 1961: 224, 225.— K. Srinivasan, 1965: 247.— S. Dixit, 1966: 17.— K. Srinivasan, 1969: 12, fig. (s.n.), pl. XII.— Gopalakrishnan, 1970: 65.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 23.— Gopalakrishnan, 1971: tables I, II.— Subbaramaiah, 1971b: 21.— E. Lewis, 1973: 145, 146, 147.— Jaasund, 1976: 101, figs. 207A–C.— Jaasund, 1977b: 406.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 35.— Murthy, Bhattacharya, & Radia, 1978: 382.— Lawson, 1980: 38.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [34].— M. Dave et al., 1987: table 1.— Banaimoon, 1988b: 240, fig. 10.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 302, pl. 8: fig. 64.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1990: table 1.— Basson, 1992: 226.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 19 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 43.— Ballesteros, 1994: 538.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Kuwait, Mauritius, Pakistan, Seychelles, Tanzania, Yemen.