orteguasae, Bryconamericus Fowler [H. W.] 1943:240, Fig. 19 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 95; ref. 1443] Río Orteguasa, Florência, Caquetá, Colombia. Holotype (unique): ANSP 70504. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:52 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Bryconamericus orteguasae Fowler 1943 -- (Román-Valencia 2000:460 [ref. 25256], Román-Valencia 2003:482 [ref. 27478], Román-Valencia 2003:24, 46 [ref. 26840], Román-Valencia et al. 2006:212 [ref. 28983], Román-Valencia et al. 2008:1750 [ref. 30068], Román-Valencia et al. 2009:2 [ref. 30393]). •Valid as Knodus orteguasae (Fowler 1943) -- (Silva in Reis et al. 2003:143 [ref. 27061], Ferreira & Lima 2006:637 [ref. 28919], Román-Valencia et al. 2013:129 [ref. 32807], Barriga Salazar 2014:107 [ref. 35745], Esguícero & Castro 2014:47 [ref. 33506], Thomaz et al. 2015:Add. 5 [ref. 33893], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:59 [ref. 35633], Dos Anjos de Sousa et al. 2020:583 [ref. 37361], Deprá et al. 2021:24 [ref. 38180], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:19 [ref. 39298], Ferreira 2024:213 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Knodus orteguasae (Fowler 1943). Characidae: Stevardiinae. Distribution: South America: upper Amazon River basin (Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia). Habitat: freshwater.