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Gonorynchus Scopoli 1777 tautonymous with Cyprinus gonorynchus Linnaeus 1766

Gonorynchus abbreviatus Temminck & Schlegel 1846 Latin for shortened, presumably referring to its shorter head compared with G. gonorynchus

Gonorynchus forsteri Ogilby 1911 patronym not identified, possibly in honor of Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798), naturalist aboard Captain Cook’s second voyage on HMS Resolution, which first documented the occurrence of Gonorynchus in New Zealand (where this species occurs) in 1769

Gonorynchus gonorynchus (Linnaeus 1766) gōnía– (Gr. γωνία), corner or angle; rynchus, from rhýnchos (Gr. ῥύγχος), snout, referring to distinctive angular snout used to dig themselves into sand

Gonorynchus greyi (Richardson 1845) in honor of Capt. George Grey (1812–1898), Lieutenant-Governor of West Australia, “whose exertions in the cause of Zoology have been productive of several important discoveries,” including this species

Gonorynchus moseleyi Jordan & Snyder 1923 in honor of Edwin Lincoln Moseley (1865–1948), professor of biology, State Normal School at Bowling Green, Ohio, USA, who collected holotype