oxyptera, Paravandellia Miranda Ribeiro [A. de] 1912:29 [Loricariidae, Callichthyidae, Doradidae e Trichomycteridae Annexo no. 5; ref. 3718] Cáceres, Rio Paraguay, Motto Grosso State, Brazil. Holotype (unique): MNRJ 790. Type catalog: Miranda Ribeiro 1955:405 [ref. 12732], Miranda Ribeiro 1954:16 [ref. 21988], Ferraris 2007:410 [ref. 29155]. See Britski et al. 1999:92 [ref. 24147]. •Valid as Paravandellia oxyptera Miranda Ribeiro 1912 -- (Burgess 1989:324 [ref. 12860], de Pinna & Wosiacki in Reis et al. 2003:277 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:410 [ref. 29155], Barriga Salazar 2014:111 [ref. 35745], Litz & Koerber 2014:22 [ref. 33622], Mirande & Koerber 2015:38 [ref. 35117], Bertaco et al. 2016:421 [ref. 34561], Koerber et al. 2017:55 [ref. 35267], Nión et al. 2016:30 [ref. 35565] with authors as Devincenzi & Vaz-Ferreira 1939, Reis et al. 2020:471 [ref. 38364], Ferrer 2021:256 [ref. 38890], Loureiro et al. 2023:90 [ref. 40506]). Current status: Valid as Paravandellia oxyptera Miranda Ribeiro 1912. Trichomycteridae: Vandelliinae. Distribution: South America: Paraná, Paraguay and Uruguay River basins (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay). Habitat: freshwater.