apurensis, Charax Lucena [C. A. S. de] 1987:30, Fig. 2 [Comunicações do Museu de Ciências da PUCRGS (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul) No. 40; ref. 17724] Río Canito, San Fernando a Cunaviche, Estado Apure, Venezuela. Holotype: MBUCV-V-15400. Paratypes: MCP 10119 (11); USNM 233691 (1), 260317 (17). Type catalog: Vari & Howe 1991:13 [ref. 19022], Provenzano et al. 1998:5 [ref. 24196]. •Valid as Charax apurensis Lucena 1987 -- (Lucena 1989:104 [ref. 12852], Lucena & Menezes in Reis et al. 2003:201 [ref. 27061], Menezes & Lucena 2014:197 [ref. 33369], Cortés Hernández et al. 2023:455 [ref. 40760]). Current status: Valid as Charax apurensis Lucena 1987. Characidae: Characinae. Distribution: South America: tributaries of Río Orinoco (Colombia and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.