“…The specimens were separated by morphotypes and fixed in a 10% formaldehyde solution, and finally preserved in 70% alcohol. For the identification of the collected species, specialized taxonomic keys, original descriptions, and taxonomic revisions were used (Eigenmann & Henn, 1914;Isbrücker and Nijssen, 1988;Vari, 1984Vari, , 1989Vari, , 1991Vari, , 1992aVari, , 1992bVari, Castro, Raredon, 1995;Silfvergrip, 1996;Lasso and Machado-Allison, 2000;Taphorn, 2003;Malabarba, 2004;Bührnheim and Malabarba, 2007;Buitrago-Suárez and Burr, 2007;Sidlauskas, Garavello, Jellen, 2007;Benine and Lopes, 2008;Menezes and Lucena, 2014;Crampton, de Santana, Waddell, Lovejoy, 2016;Lima, 2017;Marinho and Menezes, 2017;Armbruster, Van der Sleen, Lujan, 2018;Bockmann and Slobodian, 2018; Birin- delli and Akama, 2018; Birindelli and de Souza, 2018;Covain and Van der Sleen, 2018;Kullander, López-Fernández, Van der Sleen, 2018;Mattox, Van der Sleen, Toledo-Piza, 2018;Reis and Van der Sleen, 2018;Sidlauskas and Birindelli, 2018;Van der Sleen and Lima, 2018;Van der Sleen, Netto-Ferreira, Malabarba, 2018;Cortés-Hernández, DoNascimiento, Ramírez-Gil, 2020;Lima, 2022). The validation of the taxonomic status of the species was corroborated in the Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (Fricke, Eschmeyer, Van der Laan, 2023).…”