erythrinus, Synodus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:397 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Suriname and Europe. No types known. Other material: BMNH uncat. (skin), BMNH 1853.11.12.59 (1, skin). Type information: Wheeler 1989:208, Fig. 1B [ref. 21873] with BMNH 1853.11.12.59 as holotype. •Valid as Erythrinus erythrinus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:10 [ref. 9708], Planquette et al. 1996:170 [ref. 22818], Torelli et al. 1997:70 [ref. 24612], Britski et al. 1999:84 [ref. 24147], Oyakawa in Reis et al. 2003:238 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:35 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:72 [ref. 28131], Phillip et al. 2013:14 [ref. 32896], Barriga Salazar 2014:110 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:186 [ref. 35004], Mirande & Koerber 2015:14 [ref. 35117], Vera-Alcaraz et al. 2017:2 [ref. 35082], Koerber et al. 2017:19 [ref. 35267], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:35 [ref. 35633], Costa et al. 2017:44 [ref. 35684], Brosse et al. 2019:134 [ref. 38320], Reis et al. 2020:462 [ref. 38364], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:15 [ref. 39298], Taphorn et al. 2022:24 [ref. 41297], Mattox et al. 2024:356 [ref. 40807], Vieira-Guimarães et al. 2024:41 [ref. 41258]). Current status: Valid as Erythrinus erythrinus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Erythrinidae. Distribution: South America: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Habitat: freshwater.