Acanthicus Agassiz [L.] in Spix & Agassiz 1829:2 Masc. Acanthicus hystrix Spix & Agassiz 1829. Type by monotypy. Authorship follows that suggested by Kottelat 1988:78 [ref. 13380]. •Valid as Acanthicus Agassiz 1829 -- (Isbrücker 1980:75 [ref. 2303], Isbrücker & Nijssen 1988 [ref. 7320], Burgess 1989:437 [ref. 12860], de Pinna 1998:305 [ref. 23847], Montoya-Burgos et al. 1998:367 [ref. 23850], Isbrücker 2002:11 [ref. 27178], Ferraris 2003:865 [ref. 26999], Fisch-Muller in Reis et al. 2003:373 [ref. 27061], Armbruster 2004:53, 59 [ref. 27644], Ferraris 2007:218 [ref. 29155] with authorship as Spix & Agassiz, Lujan et al. 2014:15 [ref. 32454] as Acanthicus clade, Chamon 2016:396 [ref. 34326]). Current status: Valid as Acanthicus Agassiz 1829. Loricariidae: Hypostominae.