albifrons, Gymnotus Linnaeus [C.] 1766:428 [Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 2786] Suriname. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris et al. 2017:[6] [ref. 35236]. •Valid as Apteronotus albifrons (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:33 [ref. 37559], Ortega & Vari 1986:12 [ref. 9708], Mago-Leccia 1994:28 [ref. 21320], Planquette et al. 1996:404 [ref. 22818], Albert & Campos-da-Paz 1998:430 [ref. 23853], Albert & Campos-da-Paz 1998:431 [ref. 23853], Britski et al. 1999:90 [ref. 24147], Albert 2001:109 [ref. 25614], de Santana 2003:8 [ref. 26978], Albert in Reis et al. 2003:498 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:66 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:85 [ref. 28131], de Santana & Crampton 2006:115 [ref. 28765], de Santana & Lehmann A. 2006:261 [ref. 28847], de Santana et al. 2006:277 [ref. 28848], Triques 2011:300 [ref. 31671], de Santana & Cox Fernandes 2012:284 [ref. 32053] also as cf. albifrons on p. 290, Barriga Salazar 2014:116 [ref. 35745], Litz & Koerber 2014:28 [ref. 33622], Sarmiento et al. 2014:188 [ref. 35004], Ivanyisky & Albert 2014:579 [ref. 35449], Mirande & Koerber 2015:47 [ref. 35117], de Santana & Vari 2015:592 [ref. 32777], Nión et al. 2016:35 [ref. 35565] dated 1758, Ferraris et al. 2017:[6] [ref. 35236], Koerber et al. 2017:68 [ref. 35267], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:67 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:72 [ref. 35773], Bernt et al. 2018:472 [ref. 35797], Ochoa et al. 2020:63 [ref. 37781], Reis et al. 2020:463 [ref. 38364] as aff. albifrons, Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:21 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:42 [ref. 39235], Torgersen et al. 2023:772 [ref. 40692], Vieira et al. 2023:19 [ref. 40759]). Current status: Valid as Apteronotus albifrons (Linnaeus 1766). Apteronotidae: Apteronotinae. Distribution: Northern and central South America: Amazon and Orinoco basins (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela) [this range now reduced]. Habitat: freshwater.