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Common Names 



Argentina: manduv6, manduvei, manduvf, manduvf fino, mandubf (Pozzi 

 1945, Achenbach and Bonetto 1957, Riguelet and Aramburu 1961, Ringuelet et al. 

 1967). 



Comments 



Three specimens are extant in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 

 (MNHN), Paris, that presumably provided the material on which Valenciennes (in 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes 1840) based his description of A. militaris, and thus serve 

 as the syntypic series for which Bleeker (1864) proposed the accepted replacement 

 name. The specimens were collected in 1829 by d'Orbigny in the vicinity of Buenos 

 Aires, Argentina. All three specimens are males, and were in incipient nuptial 

 condition at the time of preservation as judged from the original description and 

 recent examination of the barbels and dorsal fin spines. They are in moderately 

 good condition given their age, although the largest and smallest were previously 

 dissected or eviscerated. The largest specimen in MNHN B.691, a 233-mm-SL 

 male, is in the best condition and is herein designated the lectotype; the remaining 

 two specimens thus become paralectotypes. . 



In their synonymy, Ringuelet et al. (1967) included a number of references 

 that were not available to me; however, considering the mottled coloration pattern 

 and limited distribution oiA. valenciennesi, it is unlikely that most of the names 

 provided in their synonymy were based on any other species, with the possible 

 exception of misidentifications of >1. ucaya/e/Mw. 



