friderici, Salmo Bloch [M. E.] 1794:94, Pl. 378 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 8; ref. 463] Suriname. Holotype (unique): ZMB 3552. Type catalog: Paepke 1999:67 [ref. 24282]. On p. 75 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 11 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Leporinus friderici (Bloch 1794) -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:31 [ref. 37559], Ortega & Vari 1986:12 [ref. 9708], Garavello & Britski 1987:158 [ref. 6851], Garavello 1988:143 [ref. 14272], Santos & Jégu 1990:169 [ref. 20180], Taphorn 1992:42 [ref. 23654], Planquette et al. 1996:158 [ref. 22818], Santos & Jégu 1996:168 [ref. 23717], Miquelarena et al. 1997:68 [ref. 23469], Gómez & Chebez 1996:53 [ref. 23791], Britski et al. 1999:78 [ref. 24147], Lasso et al. 2001:94 [ref. 25928], Garavello & Britski in Reis et al. 2003:75 [ref. 27061], Birindelli & Britski 2009:8 [ref. 30144], Sidlauskas & Mol 2011:[7] [ref. 31287], Phillip et al. 2013:14 [ref. 32896], Barriga Salazar 2014:105 [ref. 35745] as cf. friderici, Ramos et al. 2014:3 [ref. 35321], Sarmiento et al. 2014:38, 183 [ref. 35004], Melo et al. 2016:132 [ref. 34701], Melo et al. 2016:374 [ref. 35317], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:40 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:85 [ref. 35773] as "gr." friderici, Azevedo-Santos et al. 2020:5 [ref. 39606], Careaga et al. 2020:75 [ref. 37774], Reis et al. 2020:457 [ref. 38364], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:15 [ref. 39298], Borstein et al. 2022:16 [ref. 39507], Brandão et al. 2023:71 [ref. 40464], Koerber et al. 2022:22 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:11 [ref. 41297], Cortés Hernández et al. 2023:455 [ref. 40760], Vieira et al. 2023:17 [ref. 40759] as aff. friderici, Limeira-Filho et al. 2024:5 [ref. 41573]). Current status: Valid as Leporinus friderici (Bloch 1794). Anostomidae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco River basins, and coastal rivers of northern Brazil (Bolivia, Brazil, ?Ecuador, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago). Habitat: freshwater.