maxillaris, Aphyocarax Ulrey [A. B.] 1894:611 [American Naturalist v. 28 (no. 331); ref. 12356] Brazil [probably eastern Pará State]. Syntypes: (10) CAS-SU 2170 (1), 47059 (2). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:21 [ref. 12291]. Original genus should have been Aphyocharax. Species was also described as new in Ulrey 1895:293 [ref. 12371]. •Valid as Pristella maxillaris (Ulrey 1894) -- (Géry et al. 1991:60 [ref. 21021], Planquette et al. 1996:334 [ref. 22818], Weitzman & Palmer 1997:237 [ref. 22743], Malabarba in Reis et al. 2003:154 [ref. 27061], Mirande 2010:509 [ref. 31006], Melo et al. 2016:133 [ref. 34701], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:[11] [ref. 35679], Guimarães et al. 2018:82 [ref. 35965], Conde-Saldaña et al. 2019:446 [ref. 36937], Lima et al. 2021:344 [ref. 38293], Koerber et al. 2022:35 [ref. 39235], Lima 2024:257 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Pristella maxillaris (Ulrey 1894). Characidae: Stethaprioninae. Distribution: South America: Amazon, Orinoco and coastal river drainages of the Guianas and Brazil, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Venezuela (Guiana Mangrove Province). Habitat: freshwater.