mariaelenae, Farlowella Martín Salazar [F. J.] 1964:246, Fig. 1 [Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle v. 24 (no. 69); ref. 9227] Río Salinas, tributary of Río Pao Viejo, northeast of El Baúl, Estados Cojedes, Venezuela. Holotype: MBUCV-V-11938 [not MHNLS, ex AFY 50060]. Paratypes: MBUCV-V-11944 [ex AFY] (now 3). Type catalog: Lasso et al. 1997:46 [ref. 23639], Provenzano et al. 1998:9 [ref. 24196], Ferraris 2007:238 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Farlowella mariaelenae Martín Salazar 1964 -- (Isbrücker 1980:99 [ref. 2303], Burgess 1989:441 [ref. 12860], Retzer & Page 1997:51 [ref. 23176], Isbrücker 2001:27 [ref. 25653], Isbrücker 2002:16 [ref. 27178], Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:333 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:238 [ref. 29155], Ballen & Mojica 2014:140 [ref. 33176], Ballen et al. 2016:331 [ref. 34915], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:77 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:74 [ref. 35773]). Current status: Valid as Farlowella mariaelenae Martín Salazar 1964. Loricariidae: Loricariinae. Distribution: Orinoco River basin, and possibly Caribbean coastal rivers: Venezuela and Colombia. Habitat: freshwater.