taeniatum, Engraulisoma Castro [R. M. C.] 1981:137, Fig. 1 [Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria da Agricultura, São Paulo v. 34 (no. 11); ref. 773] Rio Cuiabá, Municipio de Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Holotype: MZUSP 14704. Paratypes: MZUSP 14705-13 (9), 14714 (1). Type catalog: Oyakawa 1996:466 [ref. 23140]. •Valid as Engraulisoma taeniatum Castro 1981 -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:8 [ref. 9708], Taphorn 1992:182 [ref. 23654] as cf taeniatum, Braga 1998:29 [ref. 27760], Britski et al. 1999:43 [ref. 24147], López et al. 2003:20 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:74 [ref. 28131], Mirande 2009:11 [ref. 30267] as not a Characidae, Mirande 2010:467 [ref. 31006] in Gasteropelecidae, Barriga Salazar 2014:106, 107 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:184 [ref. 35004], Mirande & Koerber 2015:15 [ref. 35117], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:62 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:85 [ref. 35773], Reis et al. 2020:463 [ref. 38364], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:20 [ref. 39298], Serra et al. 2024:37 [ref. 41572]). Current status: Valid as Engraulisoma taeniatum Castro 1981. Triportheidae: Clupeacharacinae. Distribution: South America: Orinoco, Madeira, upper Paraguay and Uruguay River basins (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay). Habitat: freshwater.