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CAS 41753 (IU 15739) Eigenmannia conirostris Eigenmann [C. H.] & Allen [W. R.], 1942 Holotype & Paratype  [Collection database record]
conirostris, Eigenmannia Eigenmann [C. H.] & Allen [W. R.] 1942:316, Pl. 16 (figs. 2, 5) [Fishes of western South America; ref. 1246] Iquitos, Amazon system, Peru. Holotype: CAS 41753 [ex IU 15739] (1 of 3). Paratypes: CAS 41753 [ex IU 15739] (now 2 of 3), USNM 323935 [ex Univ. Kentucky] (1). Type catalog: Ferraris et al. 2017:[30] [ref. 35236]. Holotype not clearly distinguished from paratypes in original description. •Valid as Distocyclus conirostris (Eigenmann & Allen 1942) -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:12 [ref. 9708], Mago-Leccia 1994:19 [ref. 21320], Albert & Campos-da-Paz 1998:428 [ref. 23853], Lasso et al. 2001:100 [ref. 25928], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639], Albert in Reis et al. 2003:487 [ref. 27061], Meunier et al. 2011:48 [ref. 31379], Barriga Salazar 2014:116 [ref. 35745], Meunier et al. 2014:224 [ref. 33538], Dutra et al. 2014:348 [ref. 34029], Sarmiento et al. 2014:110, 188 [ref. 35004], Peixoto et al. 2015:384 [ref. 33968], Ferraris et al. 2017:[30] [ref. 35236], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:66 [ref. 35633], Ochoa et al. 2020:64 [ref. 37781], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:20 [ref. 39298], Lasso et al. in Lasso & Morales-Betancourt 2022:106 [ref. 40783], Torgersen et al. 2023:781 [ref. 40692]). Current status: Valid as Distocyclus conirostris (Eigenmann & Allen 1942). Sternopygidae: Eigenmanniinae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.
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