myersii, Raeboides Gill [T. N.] 1870:92 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 22; ref. 17630] Río Marañon or Río Napo, Amazon system, Peru or Ecuador. Holotype (unique): USNM 21426. Type catalog: Vari & Howe 1991:37 [ref. 19022]. Original genus should have been Roeboides. •Valid as Roeboides myersii Gill 1870 -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:9 [ref. 9708], Lucena 1988:35 [ref. 22126] as myersi, Lucena 1998:36 [ref. 23597] as myersi, Lucena 2000:155 [ref. 25162] as myersi, Lucena & Menezes in Reis et al. 2003:206 [ref. 27061], Lucena 2003:300 [ref. 27452], Barriga Salazar 2014109 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:51, 185 [ref. 35004], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:48 [ref. 35633], Careaga et al. 2020:75 [ref. 37774], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:19 [ref. 39298], Lucena 2024:272 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Roeboides myersii Gill 1870. Characidae: Characinae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco River basins (Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.