barbus, Pimelodus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1803:94, 102 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 5; ref. 4930] Tropical America. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:44 [ref. 29155]. •Status uncertain -- (Burgess 1989:168 [ref. 12860]). •Valid as Netuma barba (Lacepède 1803) -- (Higuchi et al. 1982:6 [ref. 11467], Inada in Nakamura et al. 1986:84 [ref. 14235], Pequeño 1997:81 [ref. 23536], Sverlij et al. 1998:43 [ref. 27632], López et al. 2002:63 [ref. 26808], López et al. 2003:36 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:83 [ref. 28131]). •Valid as Guiritinga barbus (Lacepède 1803) -- (Kailola 2004:145 [ref. 28108]). •Valid as Genidens barbus (Lacepède 1803) -- (Marceniuk & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:450 [ref. 27061], Marceniuk & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:42 [ref. 27192], Marceniuk 2005:97 [ref. 28718], Marceniuk 2005:113 [ref. 29379], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:65 [ref. 29031], Ferraris 2007:44 [ref. 29155], Koerber 2011:6 [ref. 31122], Marceniuk et al. 2012:667 [ref. 32225], Catelani et al. 2014:931 [ref. 37496], Koerber 2014:6 [ref. 33621], Litz & Koerber 2014:16 [ref. 33622], Mirande & Koerber 2015:28 [ref. 35117], Petry et al. 2016:303 [ref. 34966], Nión et al. 2016:33 [ref. 35565], Spier et al. 2018:7 [ref. 36103], Marceniuk et al. 2019:434 [ref. 36658], Ribeiro et al. 2019:8 [ref. 36717], Chiaramonte et al. 2023:210 [ref. 40423], Carvalho-Filho 2023:72 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:5 [ref. 40463], Loureiro et al. 2023:140 [ref. 40506], Marceniuk et al. 2023:17 [ref. 40422]). Current status: Valid as Genidens barbus (Lacepède 1803). Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: eastern Brazil south to northern Patagonia (Argentina). Habitat: brackish, marine.