lippincottianus, Myletes Cope [E. D.] 1870:561, Fig. [Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society v. 11; ref. 914] Pará, Brazil. Syntype: ?ANSP 8024 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:49 [ref. 13621]. See Planquette et al. 1996:362 [ref. 22818]. •Valid as Metynnis lippincottianus (Cope 1870) -- (Zarske & Géry 1999:179 [ref. 23984], Jégu in Reis et al. 2003:184 [ref. 27061], Barriga Salazar 2014:108 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:89, 186 [ref. 35004], Ramos et al. 2014:4 [ref. 35321], Melo et al. 2016:133 [ref. 34701], Petry et al. 2016:303 [ref. 34966], Ota et al. 2016:10 [ref. 35002], Melo et al. 2016:374 [ref. 35317], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:37 [ref. 35633], Costa et al. 2017:44 [ref. 35684], Reis et al. 2020:462 [ref. 38364], Silvano et al. 2020:165 [ref. 38133], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:17 [ref. 39298], Brandão et al. 2023:141 [ref. 40464], Koerber et al. 2022:19 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:28 [ref. 41297], Vieira et al. 2023:18 [ref. 40759], Limeira-Filho et al. 2024:6 [ref. 41573], Ota et al. 2024:407 [ref. 40817], Vieira-Guimarães et al. 2024:57 [ref. 41258]). Current status: Valid as Metynnis lippincottianus (Cope 1870). Serrasalmidae: Serrasalminae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin, northeastern Guiana Shield rivers, and coastal rivers of northern Brazil (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana and Peru). Introduced in southeastern Brazil. Habitat: freshwater.