heckelii, Auchenipterus De Filippi [F.] 1853:167 [4] [Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Sér. 2) v. 5; ref. 17378] Río Napo, Amazon River system, Peru. Syntypes: MZUT 233 [ex MSNM] (1). Type catalog: Tortonese 1940:136 [ref. 21559], Conci & Michelangeli 1974:219 [ref. 21560], Ferraris 2007:73 [ref. 29155]. On p. 4 of separate. •Valid as Centromochlus heckelii (De Filippi 1853) -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:14 [ref. 9708], Burgess 1989:242 [ref. 12860], Soares-Porto 1998:333 [ref. 23848], Soares-Porto 2000:282 [ref. 25085], Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:474 [ref. 27061], Diogo et al. 2003:398 [ref. 27439], Ferraris 2007:73 [ref. 29155], Sarmento-Soares et al. 2013:798 [ref. 33029] as Filippi, Barriga Salazar 2014:115 [ref. 35745], Birindelli 2014:535 [ref. 33501], Sarmiento et al. 2014:144, 189 [ref. 35004], Sarmento-Soares & Birindelli 2015:84 [ref. 33780], Grant 2015:4 [ref. 33806] in subgenus Centromochlus, Birindelli et al. 2015:872 [ref. 33961], Sarmento-Soares et al. 2017:[9] [ref. 35115], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:85 [ref. 35633], Calegari et al. 2019:[78] [ref. 36961], Sarmento-Soares & Martins-Pinheiro 2020:127 [ref. 37877], Silvano et al. 2020:214 [ref. 38135], Coelho et al. 2021:162 [ref. 38196], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:23 [ref. 39298], Taphorn et al. 2022:43 [ref. 41297]). Current status: Valid as Centromochlus heckelii (De Filippi 1853). Auchenipteridae: Centromochlinae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco River basins (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana and Peru). Habitat: freshwater.