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Austroglanis Skelton, Risch & de Vos 1984 austro-, from auster (L.), the south wind, being the most southerly distributed catfishes in Africa; glánis (Gr. γλάνις), ancient name for a silurid catfish (probably Silurus aristotelis), now used as a general term for catfish

Austroglanis barnardi (Skelton 1981) in honor of South African zoologist Keppel Harcourt Barnard (1887–1964), who described A. gilli in 1943, and continuing a tradition of naming species in this genus after directors of the South African Museum

Austroglanis gilli (Barnard 1943) in honor of Edwin Leonard Gill (1877–1956), Director, South African Museum (noting that it is “appropriate” that A. sclateri was named after Gill’s predecessor)

Austroglanis sclateri (Boulenger 1901) in honor of William Lutley Sclater (1863–1944), Director, South African Museum, who supplied holotype