melanurus, Salmo Bloch [M. E.] 1794:104, Pl. 381 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 8; ref. 463] Suriname. Syntypes: ZMB 3588 (2). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:62 [ref. 24282]. On p. 84 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 11 [ref. 21381]. Spelled melanur in Lacepède 1803:279 [ref. 4930], spelled correctly on p. 271. •In genus Bryconops -- (Machado-Allison et al. 1993:15 [ref. 22035], Chernoff et al. 1994:241 [ref. 22044]). •Valid as Bryconops melanurus (Bloch 1794) -- (Géry et al. 1991:50 [ref. 21021], Taphorn 1992:146 [ref. 23654], Planquette et al. 1996:270 [ref. 22818], Britski et al. 1999:34 [ref. 24147], Chernoff & Machado-Allison 1999:369 [ref. 24235], Lasso et al. 2001:95 [ref. 25928], Chernoff et al. 2002:199 [ref. 26532], Buckup in Reis et al. 2003:120 [ref. 27061], Chernoff & Machado-Allison 2005:21 [ref. 28573], Mirande 2010:488 [ref. 31006], Wingert & Malabarba 2011:475 [ref. 31515], Sarmiento et al. 2014:184 [ref. 35004], Ramos et al. 2014:3 [ref. 35321] as cf. melanurus, Silva-Oliveira et al. 2015:140 [ref. 33906], Melo et al. 2016:133 [ref. 34701], Koerber et al. 2017:39 [ref. 35267], see DoNascimiento et al. 2017:[14] [ref. 35679], Silva-Oliveira et al. 2018:381 [ref. 36284], Dickens 2019:163 [ref. 37135] as aff. melanurus, Silva-Oliveira et al. 2019:11 [ref. 36769], Silva-Oliveira et al. 2019:382 [ref. 36876], Careaga et al. 2020:76 [ref. 37774], Silvano et al. 2020:70 [ref. 38133], Silva-Oliveira et al. 2021:10 [ref. 38878], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:20 [ref. 39298], Borstein et al. 2022:16 [ref. 39507], Koerber et al. 2022:29 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:25 [ref. 41297], Silva-Oliveira & Lima 2024:374 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Bryconops melanurus (Bloch 1794). Iguanodectidae. Distribution: South America: coastal streams of the Guiana Shield and Amazon basin (Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru and Suriname). Habitat: freshwater.