albomaculatus, Panaque Kanazawa [R. H.] 1958:327, Fig. 1 [Copeia 1958 (no. 4); ref. 12077] Río Pucuno, tributary of Río Suno, upper Río Napo basin, 0°47'S, 77°16'W, Napo Province, Ecuador. Holotype: USNM 167909. Paratypes: MEPN 4214 (2); USNM 167908 (4), 167910 (1). Type catalog: Ferraris & Vari 1992:30 [ref. 19771], Ferraris 2007:277 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Panaque albomaculatus Kanazawa 1958 -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:40 [ref. 37559], Isbrücker 1980:74 [ref. 2303], Burgess 1989:437 [ref. 12860], Schaefer & Stewart 1993:327 [ref. 21282], Chang & Ortega 1995:4 [ref. 24302], Chockley & Armbruster 2002:83 [ref. 26069], Isbrücker 2002:24 [ref. 27178], Barriga Salazar 2014:113 [ref. 35745]). •Valid as Panaqolus albomaculatus (Kanazawa 1958) -- (Isbrücker et al. 2001:21 [ref. 25649], Isbrücker 2001:30 [ref. 25653], Fisch-Muller in Reis et al. 2003:390 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:277 [ref. 29155], Lujan et al. 2013:192 [ref. 32784], Cramer 2014:69 [ref. 33229], Cramer & Rapp Py-Daniel 2015:469 [ref. 33945], Cramer & Sousa 2016:14 [ref. 34885], Lujan et al. 2017:333, [10] [ref. 35031] subgenus Panafilus Lujan et al. 2017, DoNascimiento et al. 2017:81 [ref. 35633], Provenzano et al. 2024:124 [ref. 41174]). Current status: Valid as Panaqolus albomaculatus (Kanazawa 1958). Loricariidae: Hypostominae. Distribution: South America: western Amazon River basin (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). Habitat: freshwater.