albus, Triportheus Cope [E. D.] 1872:264, Pls. 8 (fig. 3), 14 (fig. 2) [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 23; ref. 921] Río Ambyiacu [Ampyacu, Amazon basin], Peru. Holotype (unique): ANSP 21234 (damaged young specimen). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:42 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Triportheus albus Cope 1872 -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:30 [ref. 37559], Ortega & Vari 1986:10 [ref. 9708], Taphorn 1992:346 [ref. 23654], Malabarba 1998:76 [ref. 23840], Malabarba & Lima in Reis et al. 2003:157 [ref. 27061], Malabarba 2004:184 [ref. 28150], Barriga Salazar 2014:108 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:54, 185 [ref. 35004], Mariguela et al. 2016:132 [ref. 34141], DoNascimiento 2016:538 [ref. 34727], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:63 [ref. 35633], Silvano et al. 2020:84 [ref. 38133], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:20 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:31 [ref. 39235], Malabarba 2024:435 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Triportheus albus Cope 1872. Triportheidae: Triportheinae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and ?Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.