Species that contain: Pellona and castelnaeana [ 3 ] records

altamazonica, Pellona Cope [E. D.] 1872:256 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 23; ref. 921] Río Ambyiacu, Peru. No types at ANSP. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:62 [ref. 13621]. •Synonym of Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847 -- (Whitehead 1985:279 [ref. 5141], de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:43 [ref. 27061]). •Valid as Pellona altamazonica Cope 1872 -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:6 [ref. 9708], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:14 [ref. 39298]). Current status: Valid as Pellona altamazonica Cope 1872. Pristigasteridae. Distribution: South America: upper Amazon basin (Peru). Habitat: freshwater.

castelnaeana, Pellona Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:306 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Mouth of Amazon River, Brazil. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-3705. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-3706 (1). Type catalog: Bertin 1940:293 [ref. 293], Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:21 [ref. 9739]. Lectotype selected by Whitehead 1967:108 [ref. 6464]. •Valid as Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847 -- (Whitehead 1985:279 [ref. 5141], Ortega & Vari 1986:6 [ref. 9708], Le Guennec 1992:150 [ref. 22388], de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:43 [ref. 27061], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27192], Munroe 2003:798 [ref. 26996], Barriga Salazar 2014:104 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:96, 187 [ref. 35004], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:33 [ref. 35633], Silvano et al. 2020:383 [ref. 38134], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:14 [ref. 39298], Carvalho-Filho 2023:66 [ref. 40480], Koerber et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40665]). Current status: Valid as Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847. Pristigasteridae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

deauratus, Ilisha Nakashima [S.] 1941:77, Fig. [Boletín del Museo de Historia Natural "Javier Prado" v. 5 (no. 16); ref. 13189] Amazon River basin, eastern Peru. Syntypes: ?MHNJP [= MUSM]. •Synonym of Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847 -- (Whitehead 1985:279 [ref. 5141] as desuratus, de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:43 [ref. 27061]). Current status: Synonym of Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847. Pristigasteridae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.