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Acrossocheilus Oshima 1919 ἀ (Greek privative), i.e., without; crosso, from krossós (Gr. κροσσός), fringe or tassel; cheī́los (Gr. χεῖλος), lip, referring to smooth upper lip, which distinguishes it from Crossocheilus (Labeoninae)

Subgenus Acrossocheilus

Acrossocheilus beijiangensis Wu & Lin 1977 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Bei Jiang River, Pearl River drainage, Guandong Province, China, where it is endemic

Acrossocheilus fasciatus (Steindachner 1892) Latin for banded, referring to five narrow dark brown transverse bands running from back to near the edge of the belly

Acrossocheilus furongjiangensis Xiao 2024 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Furongjiang River drainage, northern Guizhou Province, China, where type locality (Huaixi River) is situated

Acrossocheilus hemispinus (Nichols 1925) hemi-, from hḗmisys (Gr. ἥμισυς), half; spinus (L.), thorn, presumably referring to last simple ray of dorsal fin, “stiffened and serrate behind, but soft distally”

Acrossocheilus iridescens (Nichols & Pope 1927) Neo-Latin for iridescent or rainbow-like, presumably referring to its coloration

Acrossocheilus jishouensis Zhao, Chen & Li 1997 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Jishou City, Hunan Province, China, type locality

Acrossocheilus kreyenbergii (Regan 1908) in honor of German physician-naturalist Martin Kreyenberg (1872–1914), who collected holotype

Acrossocheilus lamus (Mai 1978) apparent Latinization of Lam, referring to Lam River, northern Vietnam, type locality

Acrossocheilus longipinnis (Wu 1939) longus (L.), long; pinnis, Neo-Latin adjective of pinna (L.), fin, i.e., finned, referring to long dorsal-fin filament on some specimens

Acrossocheilus malacopterus Zhang 2005 soft-finned, from malakós (Gr. μαλακός), soft, and pterus, from pterón (Gr. πτερόν) or ptéryx (πτέρυξ), fin, referring to spinous but slender last simple dorsal-fin ray

Acrossocheilus microstoma (Pellegrin & Chevey 1936) micro-, from mikrós (Gr. μικρός), small; stóma (Gr. στόμα), mouth, referring to its very small (“très petite”) mouth

Acrossocheilus monticola (Günther 1888) montis (L.), mountain, –cola (L.), dweller or inhabitant, referring to its type locality, a mountain stream flowing into Ichang gorge of Yangtze River, China

Acrossocheilus multistriatus Lan, Chan & Zhao 2014 multi– (L.), many; striatus, furrowed or grooved (i.e., striped or barred), referring to high number of vertical black bars on flank compared with other barred congeners

Acrossocheilus parallens (Nichols 1931) presumably derived from parállēlos (Gr. παράλληλος), parallel or side-by-side, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to “distinct short cross-marks, confined to the sides of the back (except in young)”

Acrossocheilus rendahli (Lin 1931) patronym not identified but almost certainly in honor of Swedish zoologist and artist Hialmar Rendahl (1891–1969), who described many Chinese fishes

Acrossocheilus spinifer Yuan, Wu & Zhang 2006 spinus (L.), thorn; –ifer, from fera (L.), to have or bear, referring to spinous and stout last simple dorsal-fin ray

Acrossocheilus wenchowensis Wang 1935 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Wenchow (now Wenzhou), Zhejiang Province, China, type locality

Acrossocheilus yunnanensis (Regan 1904) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Yunnan-Fu (now Kunming), Yunnan Province, China, type locality

Subgenus Lissochilichthys) Oshima 1920 lissós (Gr. λισσός), smooth; cheī́los (Gr. χεῖλος), lip, presumably referring to thick, fleshy lips of Lissochilichthys matsudai (=A. paradoxus), but possibly also referring to the “very closely related” Lissochilus Weber & de Beaufort 1916 (a junior homonym of Lissochilus Zittel 1882 [fossil gastropods], replaced by Neolissochilus [Torinae]); ichthýs (Gr. ἰχθύς), fish

Acrossocheilus clivosius (Lin 1935) Latin for steeper, referring to its occurrence in mountain streams

Acrossocheilus ikedai (Harada 1943) in honor of Kiyoshi Ikeda, General, Japanese Imperial Navy in World War II

Acrossocheilus labiatus (Regan 1908) Latin for lipped, referring to thick lower lip, divided into two lobes by a deep anterior notch

Acrossocheilus laocaiensis (Nguyen & Doan 1969) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, where type locality (Suoi Trinh Quyen stream, Red River basin) is situated

Acrossocheilus paradoxus (Günther 1868) Latin for strange or contrary to expectation, referring to a “very singular variation” in which one specimen had a “considerably produced” snout and three others had shorter, obtuse snouts

Folifer Wu 1977 etymology not explained, perhaps foli-, from folium (L.), leaf; –ifer, from fera (L.), to have or bear, referring to “middle leaf” (translation), or mentum, of lower lip, the diagnostic character of the genus

Folifer brevifilis (Peters 1881) brevis (L.), short; filis (scientific Neo-Latin), thread-like or filiform, referring to its very short barbels

Folifer hainanensis (Wu 1977) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Hainan Island, China, where it is endemic

Folifer yunnanensis Wang, Zhuang & Gao 1982 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Yunnan Province, China, where it is endemic to Lake Fuxianhu in Jiangchuan County

Onychostoma Günther 1896 onýchion (Gr. ὀνύχιον), small claw; stóma (Gr. στόμα), mouth, probably referring to “horny sharp sheath” on mandible (i.e., sharp lower jaw) of O. laticeps (=simum)

Onychostoma alticorpus (Oshima 1920) altus (L.), high; corpus (L.), body, referring to its deep, elongate, slightly compressed body, deepest in front of dorsal fin

Onychostoma angustistomatum (Fang 1940) angustus (L.), narrow; stomatum, from stómatos (Gr. στόματος), genitive of stóma (στόμα), mouth, referring to its smaller mouth width compared with O. simum

Onychostoma babeense (Nguyen & Nguyen 2002) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Ba Bê Lake, Bác Kan, Vietnam, type locality [species inquirenda, provisionally included here]

Onychostoma barbatulum (Pellegrin 1908) diminutive of barbatus (L.), bearded, referring to its “quite rudimentary” (translation) barbels (>1 mm in length)

Onychostoma barbatum (Lin 1931) Latin for bearded, referring to two pairs of small (⅔-¾ eye diameter) barbels on lower jaw

Onychostoma breve (Wu & Chen 1977) Latin for short, referring to its shorter length-to-height ratio compared with Scaphiodonichthys macracanthus (Barbinae), its presumed congener at the time

Onychostoma brevibarba Song, Cao & Zhang 2018 brevis (L.), short; barba (L.), beard, referring to two pairs of minute or papillae-like barbels

Onychostoma daduense Ding 1994 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Dadu River, Ebian County, Sichuan Province, China, type locality

Onychostoma dongnaiensis Hoang, Pham & Tran 2015 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: middle Dong Nai drainage, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, type locality

Onychostoma elongatum (Pellegrin & Chevey 1934) Latin for prolonged, referring to its more elongate body shape compared with Crossochilus (now Acrossocheilus) monticola

Onychostoma fangi Kottelat 2000 in honor of Chinese ichthyologist Fang Ping-Wen (1903–1944), who described this species as Varicorhinus elongatus in 1940, a name now considered a junior secondary homonym of O. elongatum

Onychostoma fusiforme Kottelat 1998 fusus (L.), spindle; forme, Neo-Latin scientific adjective of forma (L.), shape or form, referring to its elongated shape compared with congeners

Onychostoma gerlachi (Peters 1881) patronym not identified but almost centainly in honor of German physician Carl Gerlach (1843–1913), who lived parts of his life in Hong Kong and sent a collection of fishes from there, including holotype of this one

Onychostoma krongnoense Hoang, Pham & Tran 2015 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: upper Krong No drainage, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, type locality

Onychostoma lepturus (Boulenger 1900) slender-tailed, from leptós (Gr. λεπτός), thin or slender, and urus, from ourá (Gr. οὐρά), tail, referring to its thin caudal peduncle, “thrice as long as deep”

Onychostoma lini (Wu 1939) in honor of Chinese ichthyologist Lin Shu-Yen (1903–1974)

Onychostoma macrolepis (Bleeker 1871) macro-, from makrós (Gr μακρός), long or large; lepίs (Gr. λεπίς), scale, referring to its large scales, ~50 on the lateral line

Onychostoma meridionale Kottelat 1998 Latin for southern, being the southernmost species of the genus

Onychostoma minnanense Jang-Liaw & Chen 2013 –ense, Latin suffix denoting place: “Min-Nan,” i.e., southern region of Fujian Province, China, only known area of occurrence [originally spelled minnanensis; emended to agree with neuter gender of genus]

Onychostoma ovale Pellegrin & Chevey 1936 Latin for oval, referring to its oval body shape, which distinguishes it from O. rarum [originally spelled ovalis; emended to agree with neuter gender of genus]

Onychostoma ovale rhomboides (Tang 1942) –oides, Latinized suffix adopted from eī́dos (Gr. εἶδος), form or shape, referring to its “more or less rhomboid” body shape

Onychostoma rarum (Lin 1933) Latin for rare, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to only two known specimens at time of description

Onychostoma simum (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant 1874) Latin for blunt-nosed, referring to short, obtuse snout

Onychostoma uniforme (Mai 1978) Latin for having only one shape (i.e., uniform), referring to its uniform (i.e., plain) color pattern compared with black longitudinal stripe on O. elongatum

Onychostoma virgulatum Xin, Zhang & Cao 2009 Latin for striped, referring to dark-brown stripe extending along lateral line