lagoichthys, Loricaria gymnogaster Schultz [L. P.] 1944:331, Pl. 13 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 94 (no. 3172); ref. 3959] Río Palmar near Totuma, about 100 kilometers southwest of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Holotype: USNM 121092. Paratypes: Dahl coll. (6); FMNH 42792 (5); MBUCV-V-13215 (1); MCZ 37213 (10); UMMZ 141937 (15); USNM 121093-94 (3, 15), 121095 (now 30), 121096 (19, not 18), 121097 (43), 121098 (433, now 399), 121099-101 (4, 3, 13); ZMA 102126 (6); ZMUL (2). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:57 [ref. 19236], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:53 [ref. 12367], Ferraris & Vari 1992:28 [ref. 19771], Provenzano et al. 1998:12 [ref. 24196], Ferraris 2007:297 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Loricaria lagoichthys Schultz 1944 -- (González Bencomo et al. 1997:159 [ref. 24960]). •Synonym of Loricaria gymnogaster Eigenmann & Vance 1912, but a valid subspecies as described -- (Galvis et al. 1997:91 [ref. 23651]). •Synonym of Spatuloricaria phelpsi Schultz 1944 -- (Isbrücker 2001:29 [ref. 25653], Isbrücker 2002:21 [ref. 27178]). •Valid as Spatuloricaria lagoichthys (Schultz 1944) -- (Isbrücker 1980:113 [ref. 2303], Isbrücker 1981:88 [ref. 5522], Burgess 1989:443 [ref. 12860], Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:345 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:297 [ref. 29155], Fichberg et al. 2014:323 [ref. 33358], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:79 [ref. 35633], Londoño-Burbano et al. 2018:620 [ref. 36263]). Current status: Valid as Spatuloricaria lagoichthys (Schultz 1944). Loricariidae: Loricariinae. Distribution: Lake Maracaibo basin, Magdalena and Atrato River basins, Venezuela and Colombia. Habitat: freshwater.