orinoco, Sternarchella Mago-Leccia [F.] 1994:97, Figs. 94a-b, 95 [Electric fishes of the continental waters of America; ref. 21320] Río Orinoco, at Isla Iguana, between kilometer 152 and 153, Estado Delta Amacuro, Venezuela. Holotype: MBUCV-V-10514. Paratypes: AMNH 58656 [ex MBUCV-V-10514] (1), MBUCV-V-10420 (1), V-10459 (9 not 5), V-10559 [or 10551] (1), V-12174 (2), V-15710 (8), V-19848 (2), V-20766 (1). Type catalog: Provenzano et al. 1998:18 [ref. 24196], Ferraris et al. 2017:[11] [ref. 35236]. •Valid as Sternarchella orinoco Mago-Leccia 1994 -- (Lundberg et al. 2013:158 [ref. 32552], Ivanyisky & Albert 2014:572 [ref. 35449], Ferraris et al. 2017:[11] [ref. 35236], Evans et al. 2017:17 [ref. 35357], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:68 [ref. 35633], Lasso et al. in Lasso & Morales-Betancourt 2022:74 [ref. 40783]). Current status: Valid as Sternarchella orinoco Mago-Leccia 1994. Apteronotidae: Apteronotinae. Distribution: South America: Orinoco River basin (Venezuela and Colombia). Habitat: freshwater.