orthos, Sternarchella Mago-Leccia [F.] 1994:84, Fig. 93 [Electric fishes of the continental waters of America; ref. 21320] Río Apure near Río Boquerones mouth, east of San Fernando de Apure, Apure, Venezuela. Holotype: MBUCV-V-14173. Paratypes: AMNH 58646 (2); ANSP 162131 (3); MBUCV-V-10249 (3), V-10413 (1), V-10543 (3), V-10650 (2), V-12211 (5), V-12627 (5), V-14174 (5). Type catalog: Provenzano et al. 1998:18 [ref. 24196], Ferraris et al. 2017:[11] [ref. 35236]. •Valid as Sternarchella orthos Mago-Leccia 1994 -- (Albert 2001:111 [ref. 25614], Albert in Reis et al. 2003:500 [ref. 27061], Lundberg et al. 2013:158 [ref. 32552], Sarmiento et al. 2014:188 [ref. 35004], Ivanyisky & Albert 2014:572 [ref. 35449], Ferraris et al. 2017:[11] [ref. 35236], Evans et al. 2017:19 [ref. 35357], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:68 [ref. 35633], Bernt et al. 2018:474 [ref. 35797], Ochoa et al. 2020:63 [ref. 37781], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:21 [ref. 39298], Lasso et al. in Lasso & Morales-Betancourt 2022:76 [ref. 40783], Torgersen et al. 2023:775 [ref. 40692]). Current status: Valid as Sternarchella orthos Mago-Leccia 1994. Apteronotidae: Apteronotinae. Distribution: South America: Orinoco and Amazon River basins (Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil). Habitat: freshwater.