Author: Steindachner, 1881
Remark: Diagnostic characters in a key in Fernandez-Yepes (1945:29), and in Ceas & Page (1996:674); 12S and 16S mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences used in a molecular phylogeny of Loricariidae by Montoya-Burgos et al. (1998: figs. 3,5,6; EMBL/GenBank Y08281, Y08329).