gnomus, Panaque Schaefer [S. A.] & Stewart [D. J.] 1993:333, Fig. 17 [Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters v. 4 (no. 4); ref. 21282] Río Cushuimi at Cushuimi, about 2°39'S, 77°43'W, upper Río Morona - Marañón basin, Ecuador, elevation 300+ meters. Holotype: FMNH 70860. Paratypes: FMNH 96950 (3, 2 c&s), 97597-98 (3, 2); LACM 36329-5 (1), 36330-4 (2), 36357-32 (4), 41726-17 (1), 41992-6 (2), 42005-11 (1), 42115-7 (2); MEPN 1829 (1), 2945 (6), 3017 (4); USNM 163912 (1), 177209 (1). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:277 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Panaque gnomus Schaefer & Stewart 1993 -- (Chang & Ortega 1995:4 [ref. 24302], Burgess & Finley 1996:169 [ref. 22901], Chockley & Armbruster 2002:83 [ref. 26069], Fisch-Muller in Reis et al. 2003:391 [ref. 27061], Barriga Salazar 2014:113 [ref. 35745]). •Valid as Panaqolus gnomus (Schaefer & Stewart 1993) -- (Isbrücker et al. 2001:20 [ref. 25649], Isbrücker 2001:30 [ref. 25653], Isbrücker 2002:24 [ref. 27178], Ferraris 2007:277 [ref. 29155], Lujan et al. 2013:197 [ref. 32784], Cramer 2014:69 [ref. 33229], Cramer & Rapp Py-Daniel 2015:469 [ref. 33945], Tan et al. 2016:[19] [ref. 34532], Cramer & Sousa 2016:16 [ref. 34885], Lujan et al. 2017:333 [12] [ref. 35031] as subgenus Panaqolus, Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:26 [ref. 39298], Provenzano et al. 2024:124 [ref. 41174]). Current status: Valid as Panaqolus gnomus (Schaefer & Stewart 1993). Loricariidae: Hypostominae. Distribution: South America: Pastaza and upper Marañón River drainages, western Amazon River basin (Ecuador and Peru). Habitat: freshwater.