festivum, Sturisoma Myers [G. S.] 1942:100, Figs. 8-10 [Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin v. 2 (no. 4); ref. 3121] Río Monay, 35 kilometers north of Trujillo, Motatan system, Maracaibo basin, Venezuela. Holotype: CAS-SU 36505. Paratypes: (9) CAS-SU 36506 (9, now 7), USNM 130637 [ex SU 36506] (2). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:46 [ref. 12291], Ferraris & Vari 1992:31 [ref. 19771], Ferraris 2007:299 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Sturisoma festivum Myers 1942 -- (Isbrücker 1980:94 [ref. 2303], Burgess 1989:440 [ref. 12860], Galvis et al. 1997:97 [ref. 23651], Isbrücker 2001:32 [ref. 25653], Isbrücker 2002:29 [ref. 27178], Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:345 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:299 [ref. 29155], DoNascimiento 2016:534 [ref. 34727]). •Valid as Sturisomatichthys festivus (Myers 1942) -- (Covain et al. 2015:514 [23] [ref. 34066], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:77 [ref. 35633], Londoño-Burbano & Reis 2019:779 [ref. 37158]). Current status: Valid as Sturisomatichthys festivus (Myers 1942). Loricariidae: Loricariinae. Distribution: Lake Maracaibo basin, Venezuela and Catatumbo River basin, Colombia. Habitat: freshwater.