giacopinii, Autanichthys Fernández-Yépez [A.] 1950:12, Pl. 1 (fig. 3) [Novedades Cientificas, Contribuciones Ocasionales del Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Serie Zoológica No. 2; ref. 1323] Río Autana, about 8 kilometers above confluence in Río Sipapo, about 4°44'N, 67°37'W, Fed. Territory of Amazonas, Venezuela. Neotype: MBUCV-V-21510. Type catalog: Provenzano et al. 1998:4 [ref. 24196]. Holotype (AFY 48171) and paratypes (AFY 48235 (4)) apparently lost; neotype designated by Chernoff et al. 1994:239 [ref. 22044]. •Valid as Autanichthys giacopinii Fernández-Yépez 1950 -- (Géry 1992:78 [ref. 20972]). •Valid as Bryconops giacopinii (Fernández-Yépez 1950) -- (Machado-Allison et al. 1993:11 [ref. 22035], Chernoff et al. 1994:239 [ref. 22044], Machado-Allison et al. 1996:45 [ref. 23463], Chernoff & Machado-Allison 1999:369 [ref. 24235], Buckup in Reis et al. 2003:120 [ref. 27061], Chernoff & Machado-Allison 2005:21 [ref. 28573], Wingert & Malabarba 2011:475 [ref. 31515], Silva-Oliveira et al. 2015:140 [ref. 33906], Guedes et al. 2016:[11] [ref. 34534] as cf. giacopinii, DoNascimiento 2016:529 [ref. 34727], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:64 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:82 [ref. 35773], Silva-Oliveira et al. 2018:381 [ref. 36284], Silva-Oliveira et al. 2019:20 [ref. 36769], Silva-Oliveira et al. 2019:382 [ref. 36876], Taphorn et al. 2022:25 [ref. 41297], Cortés Hernández et al. 2023:456 [ref. 40760], Silva-Oliveira & Lima 2024:373 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Bryconops giacopinii (Fernández-Yépez 1950). Iguanodectidae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco river basins (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.