macropomus, Myletes Cuvier [G.] 1816:Tome IV, Pl. 10 (fig. 1) [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] Brazil. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-8626 (dry). Type catalog: Bertin 1948:28 [ref. 19577]. Name appeared on the Plate. Also described as new in Cuvier 1818:453, Pl. 21 (fig. 3) [ref. 1016]. •Valid as Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier 1816) -- (Goulding & Carvalho 1982 [ref. 13855], Ortega & Vari 1986:8 [ref. 9708], Taphorn 1992:161 [ref. 23654], Loubens & Panfili 1997:1 [ref. 22895], Fuller et al. 1999:182 [ref. 25838], Lasso et al. 2001:95 [ref. 25928], Ross et al. 2001:293 [ref. 25978], Jégu in Reis et al. 2003:183 [ref. 27061] dated 1818, Kottelat 2013:215 [ref. 32989], Barriga Salazar 2014:108 [ref. 35745], Ramos et al. 2014:4 [ref. 35321], Sarmiento et al. 2014:88, 186 [ref. 35004], Melo et al. 2016:374 [ref. 35317], Miesen et al. 2016:82 [ref. 34492], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:36 [ref. 35633], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:251 [ref. 37108], Reis et al. 2020:462 [ref. 38364], Silva et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37809], Silvano et al. 2020:156 [ref. 38133], Angulo 2021:8 [ref. 38913], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:15 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:17 [ref. 39235], Chan et al. 2023:138 [ref. 40365], Jamandre 2023:163 [ref. 40455], Vieira et al. 2023:18 [ref. 40759], Ota et al. 2024:405 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier 1816). Serrasalmidae: Colossomatinae. Distribution: South America: Amazon and Orinoco basins (Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela). Introduced or raised in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Italy, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (China). Habitat: freshwater.