pirinampu, Pimelodus Spix [J. B. von] & Agassiz [L.] 1829:20, Pl. 8 [Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam; ref. 13] Rivers of Brazil. No types known. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:339 [ref. 29155]. Comments on type locality see Koerber 2021:90 [ref. 38172]. •Valid as Pinirampus pirinampu (Spix & Agassiz 1829) -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:15 [ref. 9708], Burgess 1989:278 [ref. 12860], Britski et al. 1999:102 [ref. 24147], Lundberg & Littmann in Reis et al. 2003:440 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:339 [ref. 29155], Barriga Salazar 2014:114 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:192 [ref. 35004], Nión et al. 2016:34 [ref. 35565] as pinirampu, DoNascimiento et al. 2017:94 [ref. 35633], Reis et al. 2020:469 [ref. 38364], Silvano et al. 2020:302 [ref. 38135], Grant 2021:97 [ref. 38702], Koerber 2021:90 [ref. 38172], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:23 [ref. 39298], Lasso & Morales-Betancourt in Lasso & Morales-Betancourt 2022:246 [ref. 40783], Taphorn et al. 2022:55 [ref. 41297]). Current status: Valid as Pinirampus pirinampu (Spix & Agassiz 1829). Pimelodidae. Distribution: South America: Amazon, Essequibo, Orinoco and Paraná River basins (Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.