diff --git a/src/stdlib_linalg_pinv.fypp b/src/stdlib_linalg_pinv.fypp
index 570ce3f72..91002ff2f 100644
--- a/src/stdlib_linalg_pinv.fypp
+++ b/src/stdlib_linalg_pinv.fypp
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ submodule(stdlib_linalg) stdlib_linalg_pseudoinverse
      use stdlib_linalg_blas
      use stdlib_linalg_lapack
      use stdlib_linalg_state
-     use stdlib_linalg, only: svd
      use ieee_arithmetic, only: ieee_value, ieee_quiet_nan
      implicit none(type,external)