Species that contain: Vesicatrus and tegatus [ 1 ] records

tegatus, Vesicatrus Eigenmann [C. H.] 1911:174, Pl. 7 (fig. 1) [Annals of the Carnegie Museum v. 8 (no. 1) (art. 3); ref. 1226] Rio Jauru, upper Rio Paraguay basin, Brazil. Holotype: FMNH 54573 [ex CM 3201]. Paratypes: CAS 62257 [ex IU 13295, CM 3202] (2); FMNH 15184 (1), 148667 (4). Type catalog: Henn 1928:67 [ref. 12305], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:85 [ref. 12367]. Etymology not explained (maybe adjectival form of tegos = covering in reference to the black spot), the epithet to be treated as an indeclinable noun. •Valid as Phenacogaster tegatus (Eigenmann 1911) -- (Britski et al. 1999:40 [ref. 24147], Casciotta et al. 2001:1 [ref. 27703], Lucena & Menezes in Reis et al. 2003:204 [ref. 27061], Lucena & Gama 2007:152 [ref. 29059], Lucena & Malabarba 2010:265, 302 [ref. 30880], Mirande 2010:492 [ref. 31006], Koerber 2011:2 [ref. 31122], Koerber 2014:3 [ref. 33621], Mirande & Koerber 2015:18 [ref. 35117], Vera-Alcaraz et al. 2017:3 [ref. 35082], Koerber et al. 2017:28 [ref. 35267], Lucena 2024:253 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Phenacogaster tegatus (Eigenmann 1911). Characidae: Characinae. Distribution: South America: Paraguay River basin, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Habitat: freshwater.