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Catlocarpio Boulenger 1898 catlo, presumed to be “allied” to Catla Valenciennes 1844 (=Labeo, Labeoninae) based on similar structure of the mouth (catla is the Bengali, Hindi and Punjabi vernacular for Labeo catla); carpio, derived from the Latin carpa, carp

Catlocarpio siamensis Boulenger 1898 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Siam (Thailand), where type locality (Menam, now Chao Phya, River) is situated

Probarbus Sauvage 1880 pro– (L.), before, forward or in front of, allusion not explained, described as having a Barbus-like mouth (Barbus, now in Barbinae, was then a catch-all genus for many African and European cyprinids)

Probarbus jullieni Sauvage 1880 in honor of J. Jullien, who collected holotype, possibly physician-zoologist Jules Jullien (1842–1897), who served as ship’s doctor on a number of French expeditions and (later, in 1888) as president of the Zoological Society of France

Probarbus labeamajor Roberts 1992 labia (L.), lips; major (L.), great, referring to its greatly enlarged lips and bifurcate lower labial lobe

Probarbus labeaminor Roberts 1992 labia (L.), lips; minor (L.), less, referring to its relatively small and morphologically distinctive lips