grandisquamis, Tetragonopterus Müller [J.] & Troschel [F. H.] 1845:27, Pl. 8 (fig. 2) [Horae Ichthyologicae Nos 1 & 2; ref. 3071] Suriname. Syntypes: ?ZMB 3593 (1). •Valid as Moenkhausia grandisquamis (Müller & Troschel 1845) -- (Géry et al. 1991:56 [ref. 21021], Planquette et al. 1996:298 [ref. 22818], Lucena & Lucena 1999:235 [ref. 24225], Benine 2002:292 [ref. 26541], Benine in Reis et al. 2003:147 [ref. 27061], Géry & Zarske 2004:43 [ref. 28287], Benine et al. 2007:262 [ref. 29279], Marinho & Langeani 2010:886 [ref. 30927], Barriga Salazar 2014:108 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:185 [ref. 35004], Petrolli et al. 2016:168 [ref. 34395], Azevedo-Santos & Benine 2016:208 [ref. 34837] as aff. grandisquamis and grandisquamis, Soares et al. 2017:261 [ref. 35237], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:51 [ref. 35633], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:19 [ref. 39298], Borstein et al. 2022:16 [ref. 39507]). Current status: Valid as Moenkhausia grandisquamis (Müller & Troschel 1845). Characidae: Stethaprioninae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco river basins (Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.