Species that contain: Hoplias and aimara [ 2 ] records

aimara, Macrodon Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:523, Pl. 586 [not 552] [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] Cayenne, French Guiana. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-9968 (dry mount). •Valid as Hoplias aimara (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Géry et al. 1991:5 [ref. 21021], Planquette et al. 1996:164 [ref. 22818], Oyakawa in Reis et al. 2003:239 [ref. 27061], Mattox et al. 2006:517 [ref. 28800], Blanco et al. 2010:361 [ref. 30964], Mattox et al. 2014:343 [ref. 33381], Rosso et al. 2016:206 [ref. 34785], Rosso et al. 2018:249 [ref. 36203], Guimarães et al. 2021:15 [ref. 38947], Borstein et al. 2022:16 [ref. 39507]). Current status: Valid as Hoplias aimara (Valenciennes 1847). Erythrinidae. Distribution: South America: Guiana, French Guyana and Suriname. Habitat: freshwater.

macrophthalma, Macrodon malabaricus var. Pellegrin [J.] 1907:26 [Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 1) v. 13 (no. 1); ref. 15163] Cayenne, French Guiana. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-9770 (dry mount). Type catalog: Bertin 1948:7 [ref. 19577]. •Valid as Hoplias macrophthalmus (Pellegrin 1907) -- (Taphorn 1992:447 [ref. 23654], Oyakawa in Reis et al. 2003:239 [ref. 27061]). •Synonym of Hoplias aimara (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Mattox et al. 2006:517 [ref. 28800], DoNascimiento 2016:538 [ref. 34727]). Current status: Synonym of Hoplias aimara (Valenciennes 1847). Erythrinidae. Habitat: freshwater.