Species that contain: Pimelodus and pictus [ 2 ] records

pictus, Pimelodus Steindachner [F.] 1876:144 [96] [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 74 (1. Abth.); ref. 4225] Rio Hyavary, Peru-Brazil border. Syntypes: (several) ?MCZ 7204 (2), NMW 45859 (3). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:338 [ref. 29155]. On p. 96 of separate. •Valid as Pimelodus pictus Steindachner 1876 -- (Burgess 1989:280 [ref. 12860], Ortega & Vari 1986:15 [ref. 9708], Ribeiro & Lucena 2006:326 [ref. 28962], Ferraris 2007:338 [ref. 29155], Rocha & Ribeiro 2010:63 [ref. 37000], Ribeiro et al. 2011:128 [ref. 31238], Barriga Salazar 2014:114 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:170, 192 [ref. 35004], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:94 [ref. 35633], Costa e Silva et al. 2018:106 [ref. 35734], Grant 2021:92 [ref. 38702], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:23 [ref. 39298], Martínez et al. 2022:3 [ref. 39275], Filho et al. 2024:4 [ref. 40919]). Current status: Valid as Pimelodus pictus Steindachner 1876. Pimelodidae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco River basins (Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.

variegatus, Akysis variegatus Prashad [B.] & Mukerji [D. D.] 1929:180, Pl. 8 (figs. 1-2) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 31 (pt 3); ref. 3558] South end of Indawgyi Lake, along southwestern shore, Myitkyina District, Upper Myanmar. Holotype (unique): ZSI F10873/1. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:126 [ref. 20743], Ferraris 2007:14 [ref. 29155] Subjectively invalid; preoccupied in Akysis by Pimelodus variegatus Bleeker 1846; the authors even state that this new subspecies is closely allied both to Akysis variegatus Bleeker and Akysis pictus Günther. See Das 2003:378 [ref. 27706] with date as 1930. •Synonym of Akysis prashadi Hora 1936 -- (Ng 1999:545 [ref. 24609], Ng & Freyhof 2003:315 [ref. 27399], Jayaram 2006:163 [ref. 28762], Vishwanath et al. 2007:2676 [ref. 29124], Ferraris 2007:14 [ref. 29155], Kottelat 2013:219 [ref. 32989]). 2°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Akysis prashadi Hora 1936. Akysidae: Akysinae. Habitat: freshwater.