ornatus, Pimelodus Kner [R.] 1858:411 [41], Pl. 6 (fig. 18) [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 26 (s. 373); ref. 2630] Suriname; Rio Negro and Cuiabá, Brazil. Syntypes: NMW 45832 (2), 45843 (1). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:338 [ref. 29155]. On p. 41 of separate. •Valid as Pimelodus ornatus Kner 1858 -- (Burgess 1989:280 [ref. 12860], Ortega & Vari 1986:15 [ref. 9708], Gómez & Chebez 1996:59 [ref. 23791], Britski et al. 1999:99 [ref. 24147], Le Bail et al. 2000:102 [ref. 24549], López et al. 2003:59 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:83 [ref. 28131], Ribeiro & Lucena 2006:326 [ref. 28962], Ferraris 2007:338 [ref. 29155] dated 1857, Souza-Filhol & Shibatta 2007:478 [ref. 29504], Ribeiro et al. 2008:464 [ref. 29855], Ribeiro et al. 2011:128 [ref. 31238], Lundberg et al. 2012:109 [ref. 31997] and to be removed from Pimelodus (p. 112), Barriga Salazar 2014:114 [ref. 35745], Ramos et al. 2014:4 [ref. 35321], Sarmiento et al. 2014:170, 192 [ref. 35004], Mirande & Koerber 2015:32 [ref. 35117], Lucinda et al. 2016:344 [ref. 34916], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:94 [ref. 35633], Koerber et al. 2017:49 [ref. 35267], Costa e Silva et al. 2018:106 [ref. 35734], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:80 [ref. 35773], Reis et al. 2020:469 [ref. 38364], Silvano et al. 2020:301 [ref. 38135], Grant 2021:90 [ref. 38702], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:23 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:61 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:55 [ref. 41297], Vieira et al. 2023:21 [ref. 40759], Filho et al. 2024:4 [ref. 40919], Limeira-Filho et al. 2024:7 [ref. 41573]). Current status: Valid as Pimelodus ornatus Kner 1858. Pimelodidae. Distribution: South America: coastal river basins of Guyana, Suriname, northern Brazil, and Amazon River basin (Brazil, Guyana, Peru and Suriname). IUCN (2023): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater.