apurensis, Apteronotus Fernández-Yépez [A.] 1968:[6], Pl. 5 (unnumb.) [Evencias No. 20; ref. 7318] Río Bucaral, Paso Mirabal, Río Apure system, Orinoco basin, Venezuela. Holotype (unique): MBUCV-V-10840 [ex AFY 51253]. Type catalog: Provenzano et al. 1998:4 [ref. 24196], Ferraris et al. 2017:[6] [ref. 35236]. On sixth unnumbered page. •Valid as Apteronotus apurensis Fernández-Yépez 1968 -- (Mago-Leccia 1994:29 [ref. 21320], Albert & Campos-da-Paz 1998:431 [ref. 23853], Albert 2001:109 [ref. 25614] as "Apteronotus", Albert in Reis et al. 2003:498 [ref. 27061], Triques 2007:85 [ref. 29060], Triques 2011:301 [ref. 31671], Barriga Salazar 2014:116 [ref. 35745], Ferraris et al. 2017:[6] [ref. 35236], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:67 [ref. 35633], Hilton & Cox Fernandes 2017:101 [ref. 39312] as "Apteronotus" apurensis with question, Bernt et al. 2018:472 [ref. 35797], Lasso et al. in Lasso & Morales-Betancourt 2022:66 [ref. 40783]). Current status: Valid as Apteronotus apurensis Fernández-Yépez 1968. Apteronotidae: Apteronotinae. Distribution: South America: Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. Habitat: freshwater.