Orestias Valenciennes [A.] 1839:118 Fem. Orestias cuvieri Valenciennes 1846. Type by subsequent designation. Appeared as above with sufficient characters to establish the genus but characters were not provided for the included species, and they date to 1846. Appeared in more detail in Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846:221 [ref. 1011]. Type designated by Bleeker 1864:140 [ref. 4859]. •Valid as Orestias Valenciennes 1839 -- (Parenti 1984 [ref. 5359], Costa 1997:12 [ref. 23302], Dyer 2000:85 [ref. 26678], Lazara 2001:233 [ref. 25711], Costa in Reis et al. 2003:550 [ref. 27061], Lüssen et al. 2004:55 [ref. 29603], Huber 2005:16 [ref. 28394], Vila 2006:475 [ref. 28797], Hertwig 2008:166 [ref. 29531], Vila et al. 2012:345 [ref. 31748], Cruz-Jofré et al. 2013:597 [ref. 33015], Cruz-Jofré et al. 2015:747 [ref. 35413], Arratia et al. 2017:29 [ref. 35512], Esmaeili et al. 2018:17 [ref. 36738]). Current status: Valid as Orestias Valenciennes 1839. Cyprinodontidae: Orestiinae.