argenteus, Pimelodus Perugia [A.] 1891:631 [31] [Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Serie 2) v. 10; ref. 3431] Río de la Plata; Río Paraná, Argentina. Syntypes: MSNG 14570 (2). Type catalog: Tortonese 1963:310 [ref. 10351]. On p. 31 of separate. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Pimelodus argenteus Lacepède 1803, but retained as valid under Art. 23.9.5; see Lundberg & Littmann in Reis et al. 2003:439 [ref. 27061]. Not treated in Ferraris 2007 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Pimelodus argenteus Perugia 1891 -- (Burgess 1989:279 [ref. 12860], Gómez & Chebez 1996:58 [ref. 23791], Azpelicueta 1998:94 [ref. 24175], Britski et al. 1999:102 [ref. 24147], Vidal & Lucena 1999:122 [ref. 24269], Azpelicueta 2001:198 [ref. 25639], Lundberg & Littmann in Reis et al. 2003:439 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:58 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:83 [ref. 28131], Souza-Filhol & Shibatta 2007:478 [ref. 29504], Ribeiro et al. 2011:128 [ref. 31238], Sarmiento et al. 2014:170, 192 [ref. 35004], Mirande & Koerber 2015:32 [ref. 35117], Koerber & Litz 2016:4 [ref. 35098], Koerber et al. 2017:49 [ref. 35267], Costa e Silva et al. 2018:105 [ref. 35734], Koerber et al. 2020:7 [ref. 37480], Koerber et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38894], Koerber et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40355], Filho et al. 2024:4 [ref. 40919] as cf. argenteus). 1°Homonym. Current status: Valid as Pimelodus argenteus Perugia 1891. Pimelodidae. Distribution: South America: Paraná River basin (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay). Habitat: freshwater.