Synonyms

• Brycon schomburgkii Müller & Troschel, 1844
• Brycon brevicauda Günther, 1864
• Brycon stuebelii Steindachner, 1882
• Brycon matrinchao Fowler, 1941

Primary references

• Müller, J.P. & Troschel, F.H. 1844. Synopsis generum et specierum familiae Characinorum. (Prodromus descriptionis novorum generum et specierum). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 10(1): 81–99 + foldout table (opposite p. 99). BHL Reference page. 

• Günther, A. 1846. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum 5: i–xxii + 1–455. BHL Reference page. 

• Steindachner, F. 1882. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flussfische Südamerika's (IV). Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 19(19): 175–180. BHL Reference page. 

• Fowler, H.W. 1941. A collection of fresh-water fishes obtained in eastern Brazil by Dr. Rodolpho von Ihering. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93: 123–199 + 336. JSTOR Reference page. 

Links

• Brycon falcatus in Catalog of Fishes,
  Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2020. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on February 8, 2019.
• Brycon falcatus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2020. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2019.