Adontosternarchus Ellis [C. H.] in Eigenmann 1912:424 (in key) Masc. Sternarchus sachsi Peters 1877. Type by subsequent monotypy. Type by subsequent monotypy (Ellis 1913:155 [ref. 1271]). Appeared first in Eigenmann 1912:424 (in key) [ref. 1227] without species; more fully described in Ellis 1913:155, with one species. •Valid as Adontosternarchus Ellis 1912 -- (Mago-Leccia et al. 1985 [ref. 5732], Triques 1993:123 [ref. 22107], Mago-Leccia 1994:30 [ref. 21320], Albert & Campos-da-Paz 1998:433 [ref. 23853], Albert 2001:56 [ref. 25614], Albert in Reis et al. 2003:498 [ref. 27061], Triques 2005:144 [ref. 28939], Lundberg & Cox Fernandes 2007:27 [ref. 29255], Albert & Crampton 2009:90 [ref. 30049], de Santana & Crampton 2010:165 [ref. 30762], de Santana & Vari 2012:535 [ref. 32200], Tagliacollo et al. 2016:30 [ref. 34087] in Apteronotinae, Ferraris et al. 2017:[5] [ref. 35236], Bernt et al. 2018:467 [ref. 35797]). Current status: Valid as Adontosternarchus Ellis 1912. Apteronotidae: Apteronotinae.