llanero, Lamontichthys Taphorn [D. C.] & Lilyestrom [C. G.] 1984:96, Fig. 2 [Revista Unellez de Ciencia y Tecnologia v. 2 (no. 2); ref. 19837] Near La Hoyada, Río Guanare Viejo, Portuguesa, Venezuela. Holotype: MCNG 10000. Paratypes: MCNG 3313 (5), 3492 (1), 3525 (2), 3591 (2), 5186 (3), 5185 (3); MBUCV-V-3546 (1), V-8795 (1), V-8856 (1); UF 39561 [ex MCNG 3469] (1). Type catalog: Provenzano et al. 1998:11 [ref. 24196], Ferraris 2007:264 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Lamontichthys llanero Taphorn & Lilyestrom 1984 -- (Burgess & Finley 1996:170 [ref. 22901], Isbrücker 2001:29 [ref. 25653], Isbrücker 2002:20 [ref. 27178], Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:336 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:264 [ref. 29155], Paixão & Toledo-Piza 2009:529 [ref. 30675], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:77 [ref. 35633], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:74 [ref. 35773], Provenzano-Rizzi in Lasso & Morales-Betancourt 2022:186 [ref. 40783]). Current status: Valid as Lamontichthys llanero Taphorn & Lilyestrom 1984. Loricariidae: Loricariinae. Distribution: South America: Orinoco River basin (Colombia and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater.