cuchillejo, Sternarchogiton Schultz [L. P.] 1949:72, Pl. 3 (fig. B) [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 99 (no. 3235); ref. 3967] Río Motatán, 8 kilometers below Motatán, Maracaibo basin, Venezuela. Holotype: USNM 121600. Paratypes: MBUCV-V-6975 [ex USNM 121601] (1); MCZ 37290 (2); UMMZ 157673 (3); USNM 121598 (7), 121599 (47, now 39, 2 to MCZ, 2 to ZMA, 2 to G. Dahl, 2 missing), 121601 (5, now 4), 121602 (10), 121603 (now 0, 2 to UMMZ), ZMA 102119 (2). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:25 [ref. 19236], Ferraris & Vari 1992:4 [ref. 19771], Provenzano et al. 1998:18 [ref. 24196], Ferraris et al. 2017:[7] [ref. 35236]. •Valid as Sternarchogiton cuchillejo Schultz 1949 -- (Mago-Leccia 1994:35 [ref. 21320], Galvis et al. 1997:104 [ref. 23651]). •Valid as Apteronotus cuchillejo (Schultz 1949) -- (Albert & Campos-da-Paz 1998:430-431 [ref. 23853], Albert 2001:109 [ref. 25614], de Santana 2003:8 [ref. 26978], Albert in Reis et al. 2003:498 [ref. 27061], de Santana & Maldonado-Ocampo 2005:229 [ref. 28331], de Santana & Crampton 2006:115 [ref. 28765], Triques 2011:300 [ref. 31671], de Santana & Cox Fernandes 2012:284 [ref. 32053], Ferraris et al. 2017:[7] [ref. 35236], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:67 [ref. 35633]). Current status: Valid as Apteronotus cuchillejo (Schultz 1949). Apteronotidae: Apteronotinae. Distribution: Catatumbo River basin, Lake Maracaibo basin, Venezuela and Colombia. Habitat: freshwater.