Cheirocerus Eigenmann [C. H.] 1917:398 Masc. Cheirocerus eques Eigenmann 1917. Type by original designation. Misspelled Cheirocercus in Zoological Record for 1917. •See Le Bail et al. 2000:90 [ref. 24549]. •Valid as Cheirocerus Eigenmann 1917 -- (Stewart & Pavlik 1985:357 [ref. 5240], Stewart 1986:668 [ref. 5211], Burgess 1989:277 [ref. 12860], Lundberg et al. 1991:842 [ref. 19175], de Pinna 1998:314 [ref. 23847], Lundberg & Littmann in Reis et al. 2003:435 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:332 [ref. 29155], Parisi & Lundberg 2009:9 [ref. 30597], Lundberg et al. 2011:169 [ref. 31593], Grant 2021:54 [ref. 38702]). Current status: Valid as Cheirocerus Eigenmann 1917. Pimelodidae.