igneus, Hyphessobrycon Miquelarena [A. M.], Menni [R. C.], López [H. L.] & Casciotta [J. R.] 1980:237, Fig. 1a [Neotrópica (La Plata) v. 26 (no. 76); ref. 8687] Laguna in front of Escuela No. 12, camino Bella Vista-San Roque, Corrientes, Argentina. Holotype: ILPLA 23-IX-80-7. Paratypes: USNM 256727 [from CIMLP ?23-IX-80-8] (1). Type catalog: Vari & Howe 1991:27 [ref. 19022], Koerber 2007:1 [ref. 29776], Miquelarena & Nadalin 2014:7 [ref. 33466]. •Valid as Hyphessobrycon igneus Miquelarena, Menni, López & Casciotta 1980 -- (Lima & Malabarba in Reis et al. 2003:137 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:27 [ref. 27366], Casciotta et al. 2003:103 [ref. 28130], Menni 2004:77 [ref. 28131], Almirón et al. 2004:674 [ref. 27987] dated to 1981, Almirón et al. 2006:895 [ref. 29163], Miquelarena & López 2010:5 [ref. 30749], Teixeira et al. 2014:613 [ref. 33097], Carvalho et al. 2014:248 [ref. 33371], Koerber & Litz 2014:2 [ref. 34967], Mirande & Koerber 2015:26 [ref. 35117], Bertaco et al. 2016:413 [ref. 34561], Petry et al. 2016:302 [ref. 34966], Koerber & Litz 2016:3 [ref. 35098], Nión et al. 2016:30 [ref. 35565] as aff. igneus, Koerber et al. 2020:3 [ref. 37480], Koerber et al. 2021:3 [ref. 38894], Koerber et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40355], Loureiro et al. 2023:77 [ref. 40506]). Current status: Valid as Hyphessobrycon igneus Miquelarena, Menni, López & Casciotta 1980. Characidae: Stethaprioninae. Distribution: South America: southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Habitat: freshwater.