gulo, Cynopotamus Cope [E. D.] 1870:565 [Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society v. 11; ref. 914] Pebas, Peru. Syntypes: ANSP 8053 (Böhlke holotype), ANSP 8054-55 (2). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:47 [ref. 13621] as holotype and paratypes. •Valid as Galeocharax gulo (Cope 1870) -- (Menezes 1976:43 [ref. 7073], Ortega & Vari 1986:8 [ref. 9708], Lucena & Menezes in Reis et al. 2003:203 [ref. 27061], see Taphorn 1992:185 [ref. 23654], Planquette et al. 1996:220 [ref. 22818], Menezes 2007:22 [ref. 29171], Barriga Salazar 2014:109 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:184 [ref. 35004], Giovannetti et al. 2017:[13] [ref. 35215], Koerber et al. 2017:28 [ref. 35267], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:47 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:88 [ref. 35773], Azevedo-Santos et al. 2020:5 [ref. 39606], Reis et al. 2020:458 [ref. 38364], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:18 [ref. 39298], Brandão et al. 2023:107 [ref. 40464], Koerber et al. 2022:39 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:14 [ref. 41297]). Current status: Valid as Galeocharax gulo (Cope 1870). Characidae: Characinae. Distribution: South America: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. Habitat: freshwater.