“…Curimatids are important parts of the fish faunas in the lowland rivers of the Amazon, Orinoco, and La Plata basins, upland rivers of the Guiana and Brazilian shields ( e.g ., Essequibo, Tocantins, São Francisco, and Paraná basins), and swiftly flowing rivers west of the Andes ( e.g ., Maracaibo, Magdalena, Atrato and Pacific coastal basins from northern Peru to Costa Rica) (Frable, 2017 ; Vari, 1988 ). The alpha taxonomy and higher‐level systematics of curimatids have attracted substantial attention ( e.g ., Vari et al, 2012 ; Melo, 2017 , 2020 ; Melo & Oliveira, 2017 ; Bortolo et al, 2018 ) using both morphological and molecular evidence (Dillman et al, 2016 ; Dorini et al, 2020 ; Melo et al, 2016 , 2018 ; Vari, 1989 ). The family is represented by 117 valid species in eight extant genera, representing one of the ten most species‐rich families in the Amazon basin (Dagosta & de Pinna, 2019 ; Fricke et al, 2021 ; Vari, 1989 ).…”