Species that contain: Aequidens and rivulatus [ 3 ] records

aequinoctialis, Acara Regan [C. T.] 1905:337 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) v. 15 (no. 88) (art. 42); ref. 3623] Western Ecuador. Syntypes: BMNH 1860.6.15.13-16 (4); ZMB (2). Additional material: ?BMNH (2) Rio Vinces, Ecuador. This species is an objective junior synonym of Andinocara rivulatus (Günther 1860). •Synonym of Aequidens rivulatus (Günther 1860) -- (Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:609 [ref. 27061]). •Synonym of Andinoacara rivulatus (Günther 1860) -- (Schindler & Morgenstern 2010 [ref. 31245], Wijkmark et al. 2012:124 [ref. 32299]). Current status: Synonym of Andinoacara rivulatus (Günther 1860). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Habitat: freshwater.

azurifer, Aequidens Fowler [H. W.] 1911:515, Fig. 7 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 63; ref. 1384] Affluent of the Río Chimbo near Bucay, Guayas Province, western Ecuador. Holotype: ANSP 39118. Paratypes: ANSP 39119-20 (2), FMNH 55908 [ex ANSP] (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:56 [ref. 13621], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:5 [ref. 12367]. •Synonym of Aequidens rivulatus (Günther 1860) -- (Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:609 [ref. 27061]). •Synonym of Andinoacara rivulatus (Günther 1860) -- (Schindler & Morgenstern 2010:119 [ref. 31245], Wijkmark et al. 2012:118 [ref. 32299]). Current status: Synonym of Andinoacara rivulatus (Günther 1860). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Habitat: freshwater.

rivulata, Chromis Günther [A.] 1860:418 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1859 (pt 3) (art. 7); ref. 18210] Andes of western Ecuador. Lectotype: BMNH 1860.6.18.13. Paralectotypes: BMNH 1860.6.18.14-16 (3); ZMB 28099 (2). Type catalog: Paepke & Schindler 2013:266 [ref. 32895] BMNH 1860.6.16.153 (1) is not part of the syntypical series -- Schindler & Morgenstern 2010:119 [ref. 31245]. Lectotype selected by Wijkmarj 2010:124 [ref. 32299]. •Valid as Aequidens rivulatus (Günther 1860) -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:42 [ref. 37559], Ortega & Vari 1986:20 [ref. 9708], Castro et al. 1998:79 [ref. 24271], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:609 [ref. 27061]). •Valid as Andinoacara rivulata (Günther 1860) -- (Musilová et al. 2009:7 [ref. 30201], Musilová et al. 2009:131 [ref. 30601], Reis et al. 2016:17 [ref. 34496]). •Valid as Adinoacara rivulatus (Günther 1860) -- (Schindler & Morgenstern 2010:118 [ref. 31245], Wijkmark et al. 2012:124 [ref. 32299], Barriga Salazar 2014:118 [ref. 35745] as Andinocara, Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:327 [ref. 34894], Musilová et al. 2015:339 [ref. 35426], Meza-Vargas et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39566], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:174, Valenzuela et al. 2023:95 [ref. 40815], Escobar Camacho et al. 2024:8 [ref. 40892]). Current status: Valid as Andinoacara rivulatus (Günther 1860). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: South America: Pacific slope (Ecuador and Peru). Habitat: freshwater.