Loricaria Linnaeus [C.] 1758:307 Fem. Loricaria cataphracta Linnaeus 1758. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Loricaria Linnaeus 1758 -- (Isbrücker 1981 [ref. 5522], Burgess 1989:443 [ref. 12860], Montoya-Burgos et al. 1998:367 [ref. 23850], Britski et al. 1999:132 [ref. 24147], Isbrücker 2002:21 [ref. 27178], Ferraris 2003:865 [ref. 26999], Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:337 [ref. 27061], Rodriguez & Miquelarena 2005:139 [ref. 28787], Covain & Fisch-Muller 2007:32 [ref. 29329], Ferraris 2007:268 [ref. 29155], Thomas & Rapp Py-Daniel 2008:379 [ref. 29844], de Carvalho Paixão & Toledo-Piza 2009:563 [ref. 30675], Thomas & Sabaj Pérez 2010:274 [ref. 30831], Rodriguez et al. 2011:882 [ref. 31506], Rodriguez et al. 2012:49 [ref. 31866], Covain et al. 2015:513 [22] [ref. 34066] in Loricariini, Bertaco et al. 2016:419 [ref. 34561], Londoño-Burbano et al. 2020:1 [ref. 37854], Saraiva et al. 2021:424 [ref. 38090], Londoño-Burbano et al. 2023:1 [ref. 40487]). Current status: Valid as Loricaria Linnaeus 1758. Loricariidae: Loricariinae.