cristatus, Pimelodus Müller [J.] & Troschel [F. H.] 1849:628 [Reisen in Britisch-Guiana; ref. 3072] Takutu and Río Mahu, Guyana. Syntypes: ZMB 3052-53 (1, 1). Type catalog: Silfvergrip & Paepke 1997:168-169 [ref. 24006], Ferraris 2007:190 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Pimelodella cristata (Müller & Troschel 1849) -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:34 [ref. 37559], Mees 1986:315 [ref. 5693], Ortega & Vari 1986:14 [ref. 9708], Burgess 1989:280 [ref. 12860], Le Bail et al. 2000:132 [ref. 24549], Bockmann & Guazzelli in Reis et al. 2003:417 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:62 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:83 [ref. 28131], Ferraris 2007:190 [ref. 29155] dated 1848, Ruíz Díaz et al. 2008:1 [ref. 31123], Sarmiento et al. 2014:191 [ref. 35004], Azpelicueta & Koerber 2015:40 [ref. 33654], Slobodian et al. 2017:95 [ref. 35643], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:91 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:78 [ref. 35773], Silvano et al. 2020:277 [ref. 38135], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:24 [ref. 39298], Borstein et al. 2022:18 [ref. 39507], Koerber et al. 2022:59 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:49 [ref. 41297], Limeira-Filho et al. 2024:7 [ref. 41573]). Current status: Valid as Pimelodella cristata (Müller & Troschel 1849). Heptapteridae: Rhamdiinae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco river basins, and coastal rivers of northeastern Brazil (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana and Peru). IUCN (2023): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater.