raninus, Pimelodus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:157, Pl. 434 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 15; ref. 1008] Rio La Mana; near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Syntypes: MNHN A-9942 (3, poor condition). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:55 [ref. 19575], Ferraris 2007:353 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Pseudopimelodus raninus (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:15 [ref. 9708], Burgess 1989:276 [ref. 12860], Galvis et al. 1997:68 [ref. 23651], Grant 1999:44 [ref. 24295], Le Bail et al. 2000:114 [ref. 24549]). •Valid as Batrochoglanis raninus (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Shibatta in Reis et al. 2003:401 [ref. 27061], Diogo et al. 2004:265 [ref. 27964], Shibatta & Pavanelli 2005:23 [ref. 28557], Ferraris 2007:353 [ref. 29155], Sarmiento et al. 2014:192 [ref. 35004], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:95 [ref. 35633], Brosse et al. 2019:134 [ref. 38320], Shibatta 2019:260 [ref. 36984], Grant 2021:187 [ref. 38702], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:24 [ref. 39298], Borstein et al. 2022:18 [ref. 39507]). Current status: Valid as Batrochoglanis raninus (Valenciennes 1840). Pseudopimelodidae: Batrochoglaninae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin and Guiana Shield (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru and Suriname). Habitat: freshwater.