niceforoi, Leporinus Fowler [H. W.] 1943:227, Figs. 7-9 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 95; ref. 1443] Río Orteguasa, Florencia, Caquetá Dept., Colombia. Holotype: ANSP 70491. Paratypes: ANSP 70492 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:19 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Leporinus niceforoi Fowler 1943 -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:31 [ref. 37559], Garavello & Britski in Reis et al. 2003:77 [ref. 27061], Sidlauskas & Mol 2011:[12] [ref. 31287] as perhaps two species, Barriga Salazar 2014:105 [ref. 35745], Burns et al. 2014:213 [ref. 33354] as niceforoi and cf. niceforoi from Ecuador, DoNascimiento et al. 2017:40 [ref. 35633], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:15 [ref. 39298]). Current status: Valid as Leporinus niceforoi Fowler 1943. Anostomidae. Distribution: South America: Orteguasa and Amazonas River basins (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). Habitat: freshwater.