bipunctatus, Cynopotamus Pellegrin [J.] 1909:13 [Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 1) v. 15 (no. 1); ref. 14396] Mouth of Río Suripa, Venezuela. Holotype (unique): MNHN 1898-0021. •Valid as Cynopotamus bipunctatus Pellegrin 1909 -- (Menezes 1976:31 [ref. 7073], Menezes 1987:7 [ref. 8072], Taphorn 1992:179 [ref. 23654], Lucena & Menezes in Reis et al. 2003:202 [ref. 27061], Menezes 2007:60 [ref. 29297], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:47 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:88 [ref. 35773], Cortés Hernández et al. 2023:455 [ref. 40760]). Current status: Valid as Cynopotamus bipunctatus Pellegrin 1909. Characidae: Characinae. Distribution: South America: Orinoco River basin (Venezuela and Colombia). Habitat: freshwater.