Species that contain: Pimelodella and imitator [ 1 ] records

imitator, Brachyrhamdia Myers [G. S.] 1927:123 [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 68 (no. 3); ref. 3096] Caño de Quiribana near Caicara, Venezuela. Holotype: CAS 54359 [ex IU 17695]. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:181 [ref. 29155]. •Status reviewed by Lundberg & McDade 1986 [ref. 5731]. •Valid as Pimelodella imitator (Myers 1927) -- (Burgess 1989:280 [ref. 12860]). •Valid as Brachyrhamdia imitator Myers 1927 -- (Bockmann & Guazzelli in Reis et al. 2003:410 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:181 [ref. 29155], Slobodian & Bockmann 2013:20 [ref. 32905], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:90 [ref. 35633], Grant 2021:148 [ref. 38702]). Current status: Valid as Brachyrhamdia imitator Myers 1927. Heptapteridae: Rhamdiinae. Distribution: South America: Orinoco River drainage (Venezuela and Colombia). Habitat: freshwater.