macropomus, Myletes Cuvier [G.] 1816:Tome IV, Pl. 10 (fig. 1) [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] Brazil. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-8626 (dry). Type catalog: Bertin 1948:28 [ref. 19577]. Name appeared on the Plate. Also described as new in Cuvier 1818:453, Pl. 21 (fig. 3) [ref. 1016]. •Valid as Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier 1816) -- (Goulding & Carvalho 1982 [ref. 13855], Ortega & Vari 1986:8 [ref. 9708], Taphorn 1992:161 [ref. 23654], Loubens & Panfili 1997:1 [ref. 22895], Fuller et al. 1999:182 [ref. 25838], Lasso et al. 2001:95 [ref. 25928], Ross et al. 2001:293 [ref. 25978], Jégu in Reis et al. 2003:183 [ref. 27061] dated 1818, Kottelat 2013:215 [ref. 32989], Barriga Salazar 2014:108 [ref. 35745], Ramos et al. 2014:4 [ref. 35321], Sarmiento et al. 2014:88, 186 [ref. 35004], Melo et al. 2016:374 [ref. 35317], Miesen et al. 2016:82 [ref. 34492], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:36 [ref. 35633], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:251 [ref. 37108], Reis et al. 2020:462 [ref. 38364], Silva et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37809], Silvano et al. 2020:156 [ref. 38133], Angulo 2021:8 [ref. 38913], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:15 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:17 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:28 [ref. 41297], Chan et al. 2023:138 [ref. 40365], Jamandre 2023:163 [ref. 40455], Vieira et al. 2023:18 [ref. 40759], Limeira-Filho et al. 2024:6 [ref. 41573], Ota et al. 2024:405 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier 1816). Serrasalmidae: Colossomatinae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco basins, and coastal rivers of northeastern North America (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela). Introduced or raised in Guyana, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Italy, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (China). Habitat: freshwater.