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Horabagrus Jayaram 1955 Hora, in honor of Indian ichthyologist Sunder Lal Hora (1896–1955), Director, Zoological Survey of India, for kindly suggesting Jayaram’s participation in a symposium (the Palearctic element in the fish fauna of peninsular India) and his help in the preparation of the paper in which this catfish was described; bagrus, a bagrid catfish (originally placed in Bagridae)

Horabagrus brachysoma (Günther 1864) brachýs (Gr. βραχύς), short; sṓma (Gr. σῶμα), body, referring to height of body nearly equal to length of head

Horabagrus nigricollaris Pethiyagoda & Kottelat 1994 niger, from niger (L.), black; collaris (L.), pertaining to the neck, referring to dark saddle-shaped mark on nape

Pachypterus Swainson 1838 pachýs (Gr. παχύς), thick; pterus, from pterón (Gr. πτερόν) or ptéryx (πτέρυξ), wing or fin, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to “considerably more lengthened” tail and/or long anal fin

Pachypterus acutirostris (Day 1870) acutus (L.), sharp or pointed; rostris, Neo-Latin scientific adjective of rostrum (L.), snout, referring to elongated and pointed upper jaw, which extends beyond lower jaw

Pachypterus atherinoides (Bloch 1794) –oides, Neo-Latin from eī́dos (Gr. εἶδος), form or shape: Atherina (silversides, Atherinidae), probably referring to silvery stripe on sides

Pachypterus khavalchor (Kulkarni 1952) local name of Kolhapur, Maharashtra State, India, type locality

Platytropius Hora 1937 platýs (Gr. πλατύς), flat, probably referring to flattened head; tropius, truncation of Eutropius (=Schilbe), a common suffix for schilbeid catfishes (reflecting original familial placement), i.e., a flat Eutropius

Platytropius siamensis (Sauvage 1883) –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Siam (now Thailand), where it is endemic to the Chao Phraya River basin

Pseudeutropius Bleeker 1862 pseudo-, from pseúdēs (Gr. ψεύδης), false, i.e., although this genus may superficially resemble Eutropius (=Schilbe, Schilbeidae), in which P. brachypopterus was previously placed, such an appearance is false

Pseudeutropius brachypopterus (Bleeker 1858) brachýs (Gr. βραχύς), short; –po, abridgement of hypó (Gr. ὑπό), under or less than; pterus, from pterón (Gr. πτερόν) or ptéryx (πτέρυξ), wing or fin referring to shorter anal fin compared with Asian and African congeners then placed in Eutropius (=Schilbe, now in Schilbeidae)

Pseudeutropius indigens Ng & Vidthayanon 2011 Latin for indigent, i.e., in need of or wanting, referring to lower number of anal-fin rays and gill rakers compared with the similar P. moolenburghae

Pseudeutropius mitchelli Günther 1864 in honor of Capt. Jesse Mitchell (d. 1872), British army officer and Superintendent of the Government Museum, Madras, who presented holotype to the British Museum (Natural History)

Pseudeutropius moolenburghae Weber & de Beaufort 1913 in honor of Mrs. Moolenburgh (forename not given), who supplied with her husband, Pieter Eliza Moolenburgh (1872–1944), ethnographer and government official in the Dutch East Indies, a large collection of fishes from Sumatra to the authors, including holotype of this one