taenia, Trichomycterus Kner [R.] 1863:228, "Fig. 16" (unpublished) [Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1863, v. 2; ref. 5002] Western slope of the Andes of Ecuador. Holotype (unique): ZSM [old collection] destroyed in WWII. Type catalog: Neumann 2006:282 [ref. 28925], Ferraris 2007:424 [ref. 29155]. Also appeared as new in Kner & Steindachner 1864:52, Pl. 6 (fig. 1) [ref. 2649]. •Valid as Trichomycterus taenia Kner 1863 -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:36 [ref. 37559], Ortega & Vari 1986:16 [ref. 9708], Burgess 1989:323 [ref. 12860] as taenium, de Pinna & Wosiacki in Reis et al. 2003:285 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:424 [ref. 29155], Castellanos-Morales 2008:312 [ref. 29836], Ardila Rodríguez 2011:21 [ref. 31410], Datovo et al. 2012:36 [ref. 31994], Barriga Salazar 2014:111 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:204 [ref. 34894], Ardila Rodríguez 2017:11 [ref. 35579], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:70 [ref. 35633], Ardila Rodríguez 2018:10 [ref. 35926], Ardila Rodríguez 2019:9 [ref. 36944]). Current status: Valid as Trichomycterus taenia Kner 1863. Trichomycteridae: Trichomycterinae. Distribution: South America: Pacific drainages (Ecuador, Peru and Colombia). Habitat: freshwater.