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Aulopyge Heckel 1841 aulós (Gr. αὐλός), flute or pipe; pygḗ (Gr. πυγή), behind or rump, probably referring to prolonged urogenital papilla (or cloacal tube) fused with anterior edge of anal fin on female

Aulopyge huegelii Heckel 1843 patronym not identified but probably in honor of Austrian naturalist and diplomat Charles von Hügel (1795–1870), who collected many fishes for Heckel, usually in India (but presumably not this one, described from Croatia)

Barbus Daudin 1805 Latin for beard, tautonymous with Cyprinus barbus Linnaeus 1758, referring to its four barbels, two at tip at one at each corner of mouth, and perhaps also to its vernacular (e.g., barbylle in Middle English, barbel in Old French) [authorship often given as Cuvier & Cloquet 1816, but Daudin’s earlier dictionary entry has priority]

Barbus anatolicus Turan, Kaya, Geiger & Freyhof 2018 –icus (L.), belonging to: Anatolia, referring to its occurrence in the Kızılırmak and Yeşilırmak rivers of Turkey

Barbus balcanicus Kotlík, Tsigenopoulos, Ráb & Berrebi 2002 –icus (L.), belonging to: Balkan Peninsula, where it is widely, and almost exclusively, distributed

Barbus barbus (Linnaeus 1758) Latin for beard, referring to its four barbels, two at tip at one at each corner of mouth, and perhaps also to its vernacular (e.g., barbylle in Middle English, barbel in Old French)

Barbus bergi Chichkoff 1935 patronym not identified but almost certainly in honor of Soviet ichthyologist Lev (or Leo) Semyonovich Berg (1876–1950)

Barbus biharicus Antal, László & Kotlík 2016 –icus (L.), belonging to: Bihar Counties (in both Romania and Hungary), where it is endemic

Barbus borysthenicus Dybowski 1862 –icus (L.), belonging to: Borysthenes, ancient name for Dnieper River, referring to type locality in Ukraine

Barbus caninus Bonaparte 1839 Latin for canine, from Barb canin, a local name for this species in the Piedmont region of Italy

Barbus carpathicus Kotlík, Tsigenopoulos, Ráb & Berrebi 2002 –icus (L.), belonging to: Carpathian Mountains, the northwestern part of which this species is restricted

Barbus ciscaucasicus Kessler 1877 -icus (L.), belonging to: Ciscaucasia (or North Caucasus), between the Black and Caspian Seas, where type locality (Kuma River near Georgievsk, Russia) is situated

Barbus cyclolepis Heckel 1837 cyclo-, from kýklos (Gr. κύκλος), ring or circle; lepίs (Gr. λεπίς), scale, referring to smaller, rounder scales compared to B. communis (=barbus)

Barbus cyri De Filippi 1865 of the Kura River (Cyrus in Latin), Georgia, type locality

Barbus euboicus Stephanidis 1950 –icus (L.), belonging to: Evia (=Eúboia) Island, Greece, where it is endemic

Barbus haasi Mertens 1925 in honor of German malacologist Fritz Haas (1886–1969), who collected holotype in the Mediterranean waters of Spain

Barbus ida Güçlü, Kalayci, Özulug, Küçük & Turan 2021 ancient mythological name of the Kaz Mountains, Turkey, where type locality (Gönen stream) is situated

Barbus karunensis Khaefi, Esmaeili, Geiger & Eagderi 2017 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Karun River, Iran, type locality

Barbus kubanicus Berg 1912 –icus (L.), belonging to: Kuban River, Russia, type locality

Barbus lacerta Heckel 1843 Latin for lizard, allusion not explained nor evident

Barbus macedonicus Karaman 1928 –icus (L.), belonging to: Macedonia, where type locality (Vardar River) is situated

Barbus meridionalis Risso 1827 Latin or southern, presumably referring to its distribution in southern Europe and/or southern France

Barbus miliaris De Filipi 1863 Latin for thousands, presumably referring to fine black speckles (i.e., appearing like a thousand dots) on belly and dorsal and anal fins

Barbus niluferensis Turan, Kottelat & Ekmekç 2009 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Nilüfer River drainage, Turkey, type locality

Barbus oligolepis Battalgil 1941 olígos (Gr. ὀλίγος), few or scanty; lepίs (Gr. λεπίς), scale, presumably referring to fewer number of scales compared with B. tauricus polylepis (=cyclolepis), described in the same publication

Barbus oscensis Rossi & Plazzi 2023    –ensis, Latin suffix usually denoting place but in this case honoring the Osci, an ancient Italian people who inhabited an area strongly overlapping the range of this species during the Iron Age [description appeared online in 2022 but qualifying ZooBank registration not added until 2023]

Barbus peloponnesius Valenciennes 1842 –ius (L.), pertaining to: Morée (=Pelopponese peninsula), southern Greece, type locality

Barbus pergamonensis (Karaman 1971) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Pergamon, ancient predecessor of Bergama, Turkey, type locality

Barbus petenyi Heckel 1852 in honor of Hungarian ornithologist Johann Petényi (1799–1855); species is from nearby Romania and Bulgaria

Barbus plebejus Bonaparte 1839 from plebius (L.), common (with the classical Latin “i” replaced by the Neo-Latin “j”), allusion not explained, perhaps referring its being a variant of B. vulgaris (=barbus), whose name also means common

Barbus prespensis Karaman 1924 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Lake Prespa and tributaries, Republic of Macedonia, where it is endemic

Barbus rebeli Koller 1926 patronym not identified but probably in honor of Austrian lawyer and lepidopterist Hans Rebel (1861–1940), who became general director of the Natural History Museum of Vienna in 1925

Barbus rionicus Kamensky 1899 –icus (L.), belonging to: Rioni River, Georgia, type locality

Barbus samniticus Lorenzoni, Carosi, Quadroni, De Santis, Vanetti, Delmastro & Zaccara 2021 –icus (L.), belonging to: Samnites, ancient Italic people who settled in the type locality (Abruzzo region, Italy)

Barbus sperchiensis Stephanidis 1950 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Sperchios (Spercios) River, Greece, type locality

Barbus strumicae Karaman 1955 of the Strumica, a river in Macedonia, type locality

Barbus tauricus Kessler 1877 –icus (L.), belonging to: Taurica, ancient Greek and Roman name for Crimea, being the only Barbus in the Crimean Peninsula

Barbus thessalus Stephanidis 1971 of Thessaly, Greece, where type locality (Pinios River) is situated [treated as a synonym of B. macedonicus by some workers]

Barbus tyberinus Bonaparte 1839 –inus (L.), belonging to: Tiber (Tevere) River, type locality near Rome, Italy

Barbus waleckii Rolik 1970 in honor of Polish zoologist Antoni Wałecki (1815–1897), who noted enormously large specimens of B. cyclolepis (reported as B. petenyi) in the Vistula River near Warsaw in 1864, now recognized as this species

Barbus xanthos Güçlü, Kalayci, Küçük & Turan 2020 named for the Xanthos River, ancient name of Eşen River, Muğla province, Turkey, type locality

Caecocypris Banister & Bunni 1980 caecus (L.), blind, referring to its vestigial and sightless eyes; cypris, a common suffix for small cyprinoid genera, derived from Cyprinus (Common Carp)

Caecocypris basimi Banister & Bunni 1980 in honor of Basim Al-Azzawi, Natural History Research Centre, University of Baghdad, who collected holotype

Capoeta Valenciennes 1842 tautonymous with Cyprinus capoeta Güldenstädt 1773, derived from kapwaeti, Armenian and Georgian name for female C. capoeta packed with eggs

Capoeta aculeata (Valenciennes 1844) Latin for sharp-pointed or stinging, allusion not explained, possibly referring to its serrated dorsal-fin ray

Capoeta alborzensis Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2016 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Alborz Mountains (Tehran Province, Iran), where Nam River (type locality) originates

Capoeta angorae (Hankó 1925) of Angora, historic name of Ankara, Turkey, referring to its distribution in Turkey

Capoeta antalyensis (Battalgil 1943) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Antalya, southwestern Turkey, type locality

Capoeta aydinensis Turan, Küçük, Kaya, Güçlü & Bektaş 2017 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Aydin, city and eponymous province in Turkey, type locality

Capoeta banarescui Turan, Kottelat, Ekmekçi & Imamoglu 2006 in honor of Romanian ichthyologist Petru Bănărescu (1921–2009), for his contributions to the knowledge of Turkish fishes

Capoeta bergamae Karaman 1969 of Bergama, İzmir Province, western Turkey, type locality

Capoeta buhsei Kessler 1877 in honor of Latvian botanist Friedrich Alexander Buhse (1821–1898), who collected holotype

Capoeta birunii Zareian & Esmaeili 2017 in honor of Khwarazmian Iranian scholar Abū Rayḥān Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-Bīrūnī (973–1050), regarded as one of the greatest scholars of the medieval Islamic era, well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences

Capoeta caelestis Schöter, Özuluğ & Freyhof 2009 heavenly, named after Göksu River, type locality (Turkish: gök, heavenly; su, water)

Capoeta capoeta (Güldenstädt 1773) derived from kapwaeti, Armenian and Georgian name for female C. capoeta packed with eggs

Capoeta coadi Alwan, Zareian & Esmaeili 2016 in honor of British-Canadian ichthyologist Brian W. Coad (b. 1946), Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa), for his “valuable” contribution to the knowledge of the freshwater fishes of Iran

Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes 1842) –ina (L.), belonging to: Damascus, Syria, type locality

Capoeta ferdowsii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2017 in honor of Abu Al-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi (935–1020), Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh, the world’s longest epic poem created by a single poet, and the national epic of Greater Iran

Capoeta fusca Nikolskii 1897 Latin for dusky, dark or swarthy, referring to its dark coloration on back and upper sides

Capoeta gracilis (Keyserling 1861) Latin for thin or slender, referring to its thin, elongate body, with a laterally compressed dorsum in front of dorsal fin

Capoeta heratensis (Keyserling 1861) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Herat, Afghanistan, type locality (also occurs in Turkmenistan and Iran)

Capoeta kaput Levin, Prokofiev & Roubenyan 2019 Armenian word for blue, referring to its bluish color in life

Capoeta oguzelii Elp, Osmanoğlu, Kadak & Turan 2018 of the Oghuzs, ancestors of the Turks who lived in Anatolia (where this species is endemic), the Caucasus, the Middle East and the Balkans

Capoeta pestai (Pietschmann 1933) patronym not identified but probably in honor of Austrian carcinologist Otto Pesta (1885–1974), Pietschmann’s colleague at the Natural History Museum of Vienna

Capoeta pyragyi Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2017 in honor of Magtymguly Pyragy (1724–1783), Turkmen spiritual leader and philosophical poet

Capoeta raghazensis Eagderi & Mousavi-Sabet 2021 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Raghaz Canyon, Hormuz basin, Hormuzgan province, Iran, type locality

Capoeta razii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2017 in honor of Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (845–925), Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, and philosopher, for his “important” contributions in the history of medicine

Capoeta saadii (Heckel 1847) of Saadi, a spring, presumably at or near Persepolis, Pulwar River, Kor River basin, ruins northeast of Shiraz, Iran, type locality

Capoeta sevangi De Filippi 1865 of Lake Sevanga (Russian name of Lake Sevan), Armenia, where it is endemic

Capoeta shajariani Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2017 in honor of Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (b. 1940–2020), “acclaimed” Iranian classical singer, composer and master of Persian traditional music

Capoeta sieboldii (Steindachner 1864) patronym not identified but probably in honor of physiologist and zoologist Karl (or Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804–1885), who expanded the fish collection at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (München, Germany)

Capoeta svanetica Roman, Afanasyev, Golub & Lietytska 2022 –ica (L.), belonging to: Svaneti, historical region in Georgia, where it occurs

Capoeta tinca (Heckel 1843) etymology not explained nor evident, perhaps referring to the resemblance of some physical attribute(s) to that of the Tench Tinca tinca

Capoeta umbla (Heckel 1843) referring to the similarity of its small scales and “tender beautiful nature” (translation) to that of the char Salmo umbla (=Salvelinus alpinus)

Cyprinion Heckel 1843 diminutive of cyprinus, from kyprī́nos (Gr. κυπρῖνος), carp, allusion not explaind, possibly referring to the similarity of C. macrostomum to that of juvenile Common Carp Cyprinus carpio

Cyprinion acinaces Banister & Clarke 1977 Latin for scimitar or a short, straight sword, from akinákēs (Gr. ἀκινάκης), referring to the scimitar-like curve of its mouth

Cyprinion acinaces hijazi Krupp 1983 of Hijaz (also spelled Hejaz), western region of Saudi Arabia, where it occurs in Red Sea tributaries

Cyprinion kais Heckel 1843 local name for this fish in Aleppo, Syria (one of the type localities), perhaps from the Neo-Syrian kayiś, meaning little (Heckel’s specimens ranged from 5–20 cm, so “little” is a relative term)

Cyprinion macrostomus Heckel 1843 macro-, from makrós (Gr. μακρός), long or large; stomus, unnecessary masculinization of stóma (Gr. στόμα), mouth, referring to its large, transverse mouth (“ore transverso, magno”) [often spelled as a neuter adjective, macrostomum, but Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes treats it as an indeclinable noun]

Cyprinion mhalense Alkahem & Behnke 1983 –ense, Latin suffix denoting place: Wadi (Valley) Al Mhaleh, southeast Abha City, Saudi Arabia, type locality

Cyprinion microphthalmum (Day 1880) small-eyed, from mikrós (Gr. μικρός), small, and ophthalmós (Gr. ὀφθαλμός), eye, referring to its small eyes, diameter 5½ in length of head, two diameters from end of snout, and 2½ apart

Cyprinion milesi (Day 1880) in honor of “Col. Miles,” probably Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), British explorer and political agent, who provided holotype from Afghanistan

Cyprinion muscatense (Boulenger 1888) –ense, Latin suffix denoting place: Muscat, Oman, type locality

Cyprinion tenuiradius Heckel 1847 tenuis (L.), thin; radius (L.), ray, referring to its much thinner dorsal spine compared with C. macrostomum

Cyprinion watsoni (Day 1872) in honor of H. E. Watson, a Civil Officer in Sakkar, India (now Pakistan), who “largely assisted” Day in collecting natural history specimens on Sind Hills, Pakistan

Luciobarbus Heckel 1843 lucius (L.), pike (Esocidae); Barbus, a related genus, referring to pike-like pointed snout of L. esocinus

Luciobarbus albanicus (Steindachner 1870) –icus (L.), belonging to: Albania, referring to Lake Scutari (Lake Iannina), Albania, type locality

Luciobarbus amguidensis (Pellegrin 1934) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Amguid, Algeria, type locality

Luciobarbus antinori (Boulenger 1911) in honor of Italian zoologist and explorer Marchese Orazio Antinori (1811–1882), who collected holotype

Luciobarbus barbulus (Heckel 1847) probably a diminutive of barbus (L.), beard, i.e., a small barbel, referring to very short lobule at symphysis of lower lip

Luciobarbus biscarensis (Boulenger 1911) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Biskra, Algeria, where some of the syntypes were collected

Luciobarbus bocagei (Steindachner 1864) in honor of José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (1823–1907), Portuguese curator of Zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Lisbon, which published Steindachner’s catalog of Portuguese fishes

Luciobarbus bouramensis (Pellegrin 1939) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Bouram Spring, Morocco, where only specimen was collected [possibly extinct since spring could not be located in 2015]

Luciobarbus brachycephalus (Kessler 1872) short-headed, from brachys (Gr. βραχύς), short, and kephalḗ (Gr. κεφαλή), head, 5.5 in total length, 4.5 in standard length

Luciobarbus callensis (Valenciennes 1842) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: a lake near La Calle, Algeria, type locality

Luciobarbus capito (Güldenstädt 1773) Latin for one who has a large head, referring to its “longer head” (translation) compared with Cyprinus (=Barbus) barbus, its presumed congener at the time

Luciobarbus caspius (Berg 1914) Latin for Caspian, referring to its occurrence in the southern and western Caspian Sea basin

Luciobarbus chelifensis Brahimi, Freyhof, Henrard & Libois 2017 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Chelif River drainage, northwestern Algeria, where it occurs

Luciobarbus comizo (Steindachner 1864) vernacular for this species used by fishermen in Toledo, Spain (also spelled comiza)

Luciobarbus conocephalus (Kessler 1872) cone-headed, from kṓnos (Gr. κῶνος), cone, and kephalḗ (Gr. κεφαλή), head, referring to its rounded snout, which forms a cone-shaped head

Luciobarbus escherichii (Steindachner 1897) in honor of German entomologist Karl L. Escherich (1871–1951), who collected holotype

Luciobarbus esocinus Heckel 1843 scientific Neo-Latin for pike-like, referring to its produced snout and flat forehead, similar to that of pikes (Esox, Esocidae)

Luciobarbus figuigensis (Pellegrin 1913) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Oasis de Figuig, Morocco, type locality

Luciobarbus graecus (Steindachner 1895) Latin for Greek, from Graikós (Gr. Γραικός), referring to Greece, where it is endemic

Luciobarbus graellsii (Steindachner 1866) patronym not identified but almost certainly in honor of Spanish zoologist Mariano de la Paz Graells y de la Aguera (1809–1898) [originally spelled graelsii in an abstract, which Steindachner emended to graellsii in a follow-up publication; corrected spelling is in prevailing usage and can be retained]

Luciobarbus guercifensis Doadrio, Perea & Yahyaoui 2016 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Guercif, a village in Morocco, where it mainly occurs

Luciobarbus guiraonis (Steindachner 1866) -is, genitive singular of: Spanish physician-botanist Angel Guirao y Navarro (1817–1890), for his “kindness and friendship” (translation) during Steindachner’s short stay in Murcia, Spain

Luciobarbus issenensis (Pellegrin 1922) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Oued (=Valley) Issen, Morocco, type locality

Luciobarbus kersin (Heckel 1843) Arabic vernacular for this barb in Syria

Luciobarbus ksibi (Boulenger 1905) of Wed Ksib, Morocco, type locality

Luciobarbus labiosus (Pellegrin 1922) Latin for large-lipped, proposed as a variety of L. massaensis with well-developed lips

Luciobarbus lanigarensis Brahimi, Libois, Hanrard & Freyhof 2018 –ensis, suffix denoting place: Lanigar, old name of Ouajda province of Morocco, given by Claudius Ptolemaeus (100–170), where type locality (Isly River) is situated

Luciobarbus lepineyi (Pellegrin 1939) in honor of French entomologist Jacques Granjon de Lépiney (1896–1942), who collected holotype [biographical footnote: Lépiney, also a daring mountaineer and alpinist, perished in a climbing accident in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocca]

Luciobarbus leptopogon (Schimper 1834) leptós (Gr. λεπτός), fine or thin; pṓgōn (Gr. πώγων), beard, referring to its finer barbels compared with presumed European congeners in Barbus

Luciobarbus longiceps (Valenciennes 1842) longus (L.), long; –ceps (Neo-Latin), headed, measuring ¼ of total length of body

Luciobarbus lorteti (Sauvage 1882) patronym not identified, probably in honor of Louis Charles Émile Lortet (1836–1909), French physician, botanist, zoologist, paleontologist, Egyptologist and anthropologist

Luciobarbus maghrebensis Doadrio, Perea & Yahyaoui 2015 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Maghreb region of Morocco, its main area of occurrence

Luciobarbus magniatlantis (Pellegrin 1919) magnus (L.), great; atlantis, genitive singular of Atlas, referring to the Great (or High) Atlas Mountains of Morocco, where it occurs

Luciobarbus mascarensis Brahimi, Freyhof, Henrard & Libois 2017 -ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Mascara region in western Algeria, where type locality (Macta River drainage) is situated

Luciobarbus massaensis (Pellegrin 1922) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Oued (=Valley) Massa, Morocco, type locality

Luciobarbus microcephalus (Almaça 1967) small-headed, from mikrós (Gr. μικρός), small, and kephalḗ (Gr. κεφαλή), head, described as 2.5–2.6 times length of snout and 1.7 times length of dorsal-fin base

Luciobarbus mursa (Güldenstädt 1773) vernacular for this species in Georgia and Azerbaijan (also spelled murtsa)

Luciobarbus mystaceus (Pallas 1814) Latin for mustached, referring to longer barbels (“cirrhis longioribus”) compared with L. mursa

Luciobarbus nasus (Günther 1874) Latin for nose, referring to its snout, “very long, much pointed, as long as the postorbital portion of the head”

Luciobarbus numidiensis Brahimi, Libois, Hanrard & Freyhof 2018 –ensis, suffix denoting place: Numidia, an ancient Berber kingdom in Algeria, whose capital was Cirta (now Constantine), through which habitat of this cyprinid (El-Kebir River) flows

Luciobarbus pallaryi (Pellegrin 1919) in honor of French-Algerian malacologist Paul Maurice Pallary (1869–1942), who collected holotype

Luciobarbus pectoralis (Heckel 1843) Neo-Latin for pectoral, i.e., chest region, referring to small scales on breastplate (“squamis pectoralibus minimis”)

Luciobarbus rabatensis Doadrio, Perea & Yahyaoui 2015 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Rabat City, northern Morocco, through which the Bou Regreg Basin (main area of distribution) flows

Luciobarbus rifensis Doadrio, Casal-Lopez & Yahyaoui 2015 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Rifian Mountains of Morocco, where it occurs

Luciobarbus sclateri (Günther 1868) in honor of British lawyer and ornithologist Philip L. Sclater (1829-1913), who presented holotype to the British Museum (Natural History)

Luciobarbus setivimensis (Valenciennes 1842) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Sétif River, Algeria, type locality

Luciobarbus steindachneri (Almaça 1967) in honor of Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), who was the first to document the occurrence of Barbus (original genus) in Portugal

Luciobarbus subquincunciatus (Günther 1868) sub (L.), less or under (i.e., somewhat); quincunciatus (L.), shaped like a quincunx (a geometric pattern consisting of five coplanar points), referring to series of black spots on back and sides, “being irregularly quincuncially arranged”

Luciobarbus xanthopterus Heckel 1843 xanthós (Gr. ξανθός), yellow; pterus, from pterón (Gr. πτερόν) or ptéryx (πτέρυξ), fin, referring to its all-yellow fins (“pinnis omnibus citrinis”)

Luciobarbus yahyaouii Doadrio, Casal-López & Perea 2016 in honor of Ahmed Yahyaoui, oceanographer and marine ecologist, Mohammed V-Agdal University (Rabat), for contributions to the knowledge of the fishes of Morocco and North Africa

Luciobarbus zayanensis Doadrio, Casal-López & Yahyaoui 2016 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: mainly distributed around Middle Atlas region of Morocco, in an area inhabited by the Zayanes shepherds

Paracapoeta Turan, Kaya, Aksu & Bektaş 2022 pará (Gr. παρά), near, referring to its close relationship with, and previous placement of its species in, Capoeta

Paracapoeta anamisensis (Zareian, Esmaeili & Freyhof 2016) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Anamis, old name of Minab city and the Minab River, Iran, where it occurs

Paracapoeta barroisi (Lortet 1894) in honor of French physician-biologist Théodore Barrois (1857–1920), who collected holotype and whose monograph on Syrian lakes contained this description

Paracapoeta erhani (Turan, Kottelat & Ekmekçi 2008) in honor of Turkish biologist and aquatic toxicologist Erhan Ünlü (b. 1957), for his contribution to the authors’ research on the fishes of Anatolia

Paracapoeta mandica (Bianco & Bănărescu 1982) –ica (L.), belonging to: Mand River, near Dasht-e-Arzhan, Persian Gulf basin, Iran, type locality

Paracapoeta trutta (Heckel 1843) Medieval Latin for trout, referring t the resemblance of its small scales and x-shaped spots to those of the Brown Trout Salmo trutta

Scaphiodonichthys Vinciguerra 1890 Scaphiodon Heckel 1843 (=Capoeta), a related genus, which it resembles; ichthýs (Gr. ἰχθύς), fish

Scaphiodonichthys acanthopterus (Fowler 1934) acanthus (L.), from ákantha (Gr. ἄκανθα), thorn; pterus, from pterón (Gr. πτερόν) or ptéryx (πτέρυξ), fin, referring to spine-like fourth ray on dorsal fin

Scaphiodonichthys burmanicus Vinciguerra 1890 –ica (L.), belonging to: Burma (now Myanmar), where type locality (Meekalan, Tenasserim) is situated

Scaphiodonichthys macracanthus (Pellegrin & Chevey 1936) macro-, from makrós (Gr. μακρός), long or large; acanthus (L.), from ákantha (Gr. ἄκανθα), thorn, referring to “very strongly ossified” (translation) ray on dorsal fin

Schizocypris Regan 1914 skhízō (Gr. σχίζω), split or cleave but here referring to its presumed affinity with Schizothorax (Schizothoracinae) and Schizopygopsis (Schizopygopsinae); cypris, a common suffix for small cyprinoid genera, derived from Cyprinus (Common Carp)

Schizocypris altidorsalis Bianco & Bănărescu 1982 altus (L.), high; dorsalis (Neo-Latin), pertaining to the back, referring to its very high dorsal fin

Schizocypris brucei Regan 1914 in honor of Major George Evans Bruce (1867–1949), colonial administrator in Waziristan (now divided between Afghanistan and Pakistan), who collected holotype and presented it to the British Museum

Schizocypris ladigesi Karaman 1969 in honor of German aquarist and ichthyologist Werner Ladiges (1910–1984), director, Zoologisches Staats Instutut and Zoologisches Museum de Hamburg, for offering Karaman an “employment opportunity” (translation)

Semiplotus Bleeker 1860 tautonymous with Cyprinus semiplotus McClelland 1839

Semiplotus cirrhosus Chaudhuri 1919 Latin for curled, presumably referring to its being the only barbeled member of the genus

Semiplotus manipurensis Vishwanath & Kosygin 2000 -ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Manipur, India, only known area of distribution

Semiplotus modestus Day 1870 Latin for moderate, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to how it appears “intermediate” between Semiplotus and Cyprinion

Semiplotus semiplotus (McClelland 1839) etymology not explained, perhaps, semi-, from semis (L.), a half or moiety; plotum, from plōtós (Gr. πλωτός), swimming or floating, allusion not evident, perhaps referring to the observation that larger specimens live in deeper waters but rise to near the surface during the evening [often placed in Cyprinion with the spelling semiplotum]