edentatus, Hypophthalmus Spix [J. B. von] & Agassiz [L.] 1829:16, Pl. 9 [Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam; ref. 13] Rivers of equatorial Brazil [= lower Amazon basin]. Syntypes: MHNN 0000-0706 (2). Type catalog: Kottelat 1984:149 [ref. 21784], Kottelat 1988:84 [ref. 13380], Ferraris 2007:333 [ref. 29155]. Name first published in Cuvier 1829 [ref. 995]. •Valid as Hypophthalmus edentatus Spix & Agassiz 1829 -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:15 [ref. 9708], Burgess 1989:294 [ref. 12860], Cervigón 1992:341 [ref. 23827], Chang & Ortega 1995:6 [ref. 24302], Gómez & Chebez 1996:61 [ref. 23791], de Pinna 1998:321 [ref. 23847], Britski et al. 1999:97 [ref. 24147], López-Fernández & Winemiller 2000:37 [ref. 24443], Le Bail et al. 2000:150 [ref. 24549], Ferraris 2003:858 [ref. 26999], Lundberg & Littmann in Reis et al. 2003:436 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:59 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:83 [ref. 28131], Ferraris 2007:333 [ref. 29155], Barriga Salazar 2014:114 [ref. 35745], Ramos et al. 2014:4 [ref. 35321] as cf. edentatus, Sarmiento et al. 2014:167, 192 [ref. 35004], Littmann et al. 2015:161, 172 [ref. 33933], Mirande & Koerber 2015:33 [ref. 35117], Melo et al. 2016:134 [ref. 34701], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:93 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:80 [ref. 35773], dos Santos et al. 2019:289 [ref. 37144], Silvano et al. 2020:288 [ref. 38135], Littmann et al. 2021:183 [ref. 38412], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:23 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:61 [ref. 39235]). Current status: Valid as Hypophthalmus edentatus Spix & Agassiz 1829. Pimelodidae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin (Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Peru). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.