laticaudus, Pimelodus Kner [R.] (ex Heckel) 1858:420 [50] [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 26 (s. 373); ref. 2630] Mexico. Syntypes: NMW 50554 (?3) not found. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:198 [ref. 29155]. On p. 50 of separate. •Valid as Pimelodus laticaudus Kner 1858, with subspecies -- (Greenfield et al. 1982 [ref. 8980], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:29 [ref. 22290]). •Valid as Rhamdia laticauda (Kner 1858) -- (Burgess 1989:279 [ref. 12860], Silfvergrip 1996:86 [ref. 22347], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:86 [ref. 22947], Weber & Wilkens 1998:998 [ref. 23617], Wilkens 2001:252 [ref. 26397], Perdices et al. 2002:178 [ref. 26367], Bockmann & Guazzelli in Reis et al. 2003:423 [ref. 27061], Weber et al. 2003:273 [ref. 27394], Nelson et al. 2004:83 [ref. 27807], Miller 2006:173 [ref. 28615], Scharpf 2006:20 [ref. 30386], Ferraris 2007:198 [ref. 29155] dated to 1857, Matamoros et al. 2009:11 [ref. 31241], McMahan et al. 2013:444 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:83 [ref. 32708], Angulo et al. 2013:993 [ref. 33194], Hernández et al. 2015:576 [ref. 34223], González-Murcia et al. 2019:291 [ref. 36544], Angulo et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37425], López-Segovia et al. 2020:110 [ref. 38151], Arroyave & Cruz-Fernández 2021:28 [ref. 39238], Angulo et al. 2023:27 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:272 [ref. 41235], Guenavad-González et al. 2023:68 [ref. 40500], Page et al. 2023:77 [ref. 40505], Quintana 2024:6 [ref. 41186]). Current status: Valid as Rhamdia laticauda (Kner 1858). Heptapteridae: Rhamdiinae. Distribution: Southern North America, central America: Atlantic and Pacific slopes of southern Veracruz, Oaxaca and northern Chiapas (Mexico), including cave systems, south to Panama. Habitat: freshwater.