diff --git a/packages/gatsby-transformer-sharp/README.md b/packages/gatsby-transformer-sharp/README.md
index 5ebee80885ca9..489ce237984e0 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-transformer-sharp/README.md
+++ b/packages/gatsby-transformer-sharp/README.md
@@ -30,6 +30,5 @@ It recognizes files with the following extensions as images.
 * webp
 * tif
 * tiff
-* svg
 
 Each image file is parsed into a node of type `ImageSharp`.