beebei, Hypopomus Schultz [L. P.] 1944:40, Pl. 1 (fig. 4); Fig. 1 [Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society v. 29 (pt 1, no. 5); ref. 10140] Río Caripe near Caripito, Estado Monagas, Venezuela. Holotype: USNM 120753 (tail missing). Paratypes: AMNH 15453 [ex NYZS 30040] (3 or 2), MBUCV-V-15163 [ex AMNH 15453] (1). Type catalog: Ferraris & Vari 1992:5 [ref. 19771], Provenzano et al. 1998:11 [ref. 24196], Ferraris et al. 2017:[22] [ref. 35236]. •Valid as Hypopomus beebei Schultz 1944 -- (Hopkins 1991:155 [ref. 19506]). •Valid as Brachyhypopomus beebei (Schultz 1944) -- (Mago-Leccia 1994:48 [ref. 21320], Planquette et al. 1996:396 [ref. 22818], Albert & Campos-da-Paz 1998:426 [ref. 23853], Albert & Crampton in Reis et al. 2003:494 [ref. 27061], Triques & Khamis 2003:63 [ref. 27465], Giora et al. 2008:159 [ref. 29707], Giora & Malabarba 2009:60 [ref. 30168], Sullivan & Hopkins 2009:183 [ref. 30151], Almirón et al. 2010:572 [ref. 31124], Sullivan et al. 2013:3 [ref. 32879], Barriga Salazar 2014:116 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:188 [ref. 35004], Crampton et al. 2016:53 [ref. 34832], Crampton et al. 2017:669 [ref. 35114], Ferraris et al. 2017:[22] [ref. 35236], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:65 [ref. 35633], Ochoa et al. 2020:63 [ref. 37781], Dutra et al. 2021:12 [ref. 38178], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:21 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:44 [ref. 39235]). Current status: Valid as Brachyhypopomus beebei (Schultz 1944). Hypopomidae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco river basins (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.