Author: (Castelnau, 1855)
Remark: New combination and redescription of species including the holotype by Regan (1904:260); 12S and 16S mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences used in a molecular phylogeny of Loricariidae by Montoya-Burgos et al. (1998: figs. 3,4,6; EMBL/GenBank Y08283, Y08331).