Author: Fernandez & Weitzman, 1987
Remark: This species is so far recorded from two localities, that of the type specimens given above and the Rio Ereré,Amazonas, Brazil. See Weitzman & Fernandez (1989) for a discussion of these localities.  This species has been exported, as an aquarium fish, into the USA and Germany as bycatch with <i>Paracheirodon simulans</i>. See Bork  (1998) and Bork and Mayland (1998) for accounts of this species as an aquarium fish.