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Ailia Gray 1830 a local name for A. coila (and Ailiichthys punctata) in India

Ailia coila (Hamilton 1822) etymology not explained, possibly a latinization of Kajoli (pronounced “kway-la”), Assamese name for this catfish in Rangbur, Bangladesh

Ailiichthys Day 1872 Ailia, similar to that genus but differing in the lack of ventral fins; ichthýs (Gr. ἰχθύς), fish

Ailiichthys punctata Day 1872 Latin for spotted, referring to large black spot before caudal-fin base

Clupisoma Swainson 1838 clupi-, from clupea (L.), herring or herring-like fish; sṓma (Gr. σῶμα), body, referring to herring-shaped body of C. garua

Clupisoma bastari Datta & Karmakar 1980 of Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, India, type locality

Clupisoma garua (Hamilton 1822) local Bengali name for this catfish in India

Clupisoma longianale (Huang 1981) longus (L.), long; anale (L.), anal, referring to its longer anal fin compared with C. sinense

Clupisoma montanum Hora 1937 Latin for pertaining to mountains, presumably referring to its occurrence in mountain streams of the Lesser Himalayas near Darjeeling, India

Clupisoma naziri Mirza & Awan 1973 in honor of “the most eminent ichthyologist of Pakistan,” Nazir Ahmad (1910–1985), Director of Fisheries, West Pakistan (this catfish was described from Pakistan)

Clupisoma nujiangense Chen, Ferraris & Yang 2005 –ense, Latin suffix denoting place: Nu Jiang (=Salween River), Yunnan Province, China, type locality

Clupisoma prateri Hora 1937 in honor of Indian-born British naturalist Stanley Henry Prater (1890–1960), curator, Bombay Natural History Society, for helping Hora procure fresh material of Indian fishes for his studies

Clupisoma roosae Ferraris 2004 in honor of ecotoxicologist Anna Roos (b. 1961), curator, Department of Environmental Research and Monitoring Swedish Museum of Natural History, who, with her colleague ichthyologist Fang Fang (1962–2010), collected holotype

Clupisoma sinense (Huang 1981) –ense, Latin suffix denoting place: Sinica (China), where type locality (Simao Prefecture, Yunnan Province) is situated

Clupisoma yunnanense (He, Huang & Li 1995) –ense, Latin suffix denoting place: Yunnan Province, China, where it is endemic to the upper Salween River basin

Eutropiichthys Bleeker 1862 Eutropius (=Schilbe, Schilbeidae), referring to its similarity to that genus; ichthýs (Gr. ἰχθύς), fish

Eutropiichthys britzi Ferraris & Vari 2007 in honor of German ichthyologist Ralph Britz (Natural History Museum, London), who collected some of the type material, for his many contributions to our knowledge of the fishes of Myanmar

Eutropiichthys burmannicus Day 1877 –icus (L.), belonging to: Burma (Myanmar), described as a Burmese variety of E. vacha [note incorrect spelling, with an extra “n”]

Eutropiichthys cetosus Ng, Lalramliana, Lalronunga & Lalnuntluanga 2014 Latin for of or pertaining to sea-fishes (but here meaning whale-like), referring to its numerous gill rakers, reminiscent of baleen in baleen whales

Eutropiichthys goongwaree (Sykes 1839) Marathi vernacular for this species in India, which, as Sykes explained in 1841, he adopted “so that naturalists who travel the country can always obtain” the species

Eutropiichthys murius (Hamilton 1822) from Muri vacha, local Gangetic name for this catfish

Eutropiichthys salweenensis Ferraris & Vari 2007 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Salween River, Thailand, type locality

Eutropiichthys vacha (Hamilton 1822) local Gangetic name for ailiid catfishes in India, including this one

Laides Jordan 1919 –ídēs (Gr. ίδης), patronymic suffix: replacement name for Lais Bleeker 1858, preoccupied by Lais Gistel 1848 in Tunicata (Lais is Sundanese name for L. hexanema)

Laides hexanema (Bleeker 1852) héx (Gr. ἕξ), six; nema (Gr. νῆμα), thread, referring to three pairs of fleshy barbels

Laides longibarbis (Fowler 1934) longus (L.), long; barbis (scientific Neo-Latin), barbel, referring to long maxillary barbel that reaches just beyond front of anal fin

Proeutropiichthys Hora 1937 pro– (L.), in front of or before, probably referring to Hora’s belief that this genus gave rise to Eutropiichthys

Proeutropiichthys buchanani (Valenciennes 1840) patronym not identified but almost certainly in honor of Francis Hamilton-Buchanan (1762–1829), Scottish physician and naturalist, who published an influential account of Indo-Gangetic fishes in 1822

Proeutropiichthys macropthalmos (Blyth 1860) macro-, from makrós (Gr. μακρός), long or large; ophthalmós (Gr. ὀφθαλμός), eye, referring to its “remarkably large eyes, that occupy more than half of the height of the head”

Proeutropiichthys taakree (Sykes 1839) Marathi vernacular for this species in India, which, as Sykes explained in 1841, he adopted “so that naturalists who travel the country can always obtain” the species

Silonia Swainson 1838 etymology not explained, possibly a latinization of silon, local name for juveniles of this catfish in Bihar, India, or possibly tautonymous with Pimelodus silondia Hamilton 1822 but missing the “d”

Silonia childreni (Sykes 1839) per Sykes (1841) , in honor of Sykes’ friend John George Children (1777–1852), British entomologist and keeper of the Natural History Department of the British Museum (Natural History)

Silonia silondia (Hamilton 1822) latinization of Silond, local name for this catfish in Bihar, India