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Scoloplax Bailey & Baskin 1976 scolo-, from skólops (Gr. σκόλοψ), thorn or pointed object; pláx (Gr. πλάξ), anything flat and broad (e.g., plate), referring to movable, dermal bone on top of snout (rostral plate) of S. dicra, which is studded with large integumentary teeth

Scoloplax baileyi Rocha, Lazzarotto & Py-Daniel 2012 in honor of American ichthyologist Reeve M. Bailey (1911–2011), University of Michigan, for his “remarkable” contributions to ichthyology, including the descriptions of Scoloplax and S. dicra

Scoloplax baskini Rocha, de Oliveira & Rapp Py-Daniel 2008 in honor of American ichthyologist Jonathan Baskin (b. 1939), California State Polytechnic University, for his “significant” contributions to Neotropical ichthyology, including the descriptions of Scoloplax and S. dicra

Scoloplax dicra Bailey & Baskin 1976 from díkros (Gr. δίκροος), Greek for forked or cloven, referring to forked maxillary barbel

Scoloplax distolothrix Schaefer, Weitzman & Britski 1989 distolos (Gr. δίστολος), in pairs; thríx (Gr. θρίξ), hair or ray, referring to its paired bilateral mental barbels

Scoloplax dolicholophia Schaefer, Weitzman & Britski 1989 dolichós (Gr. δολιχός), long; lophia, from lóphos (Gr. λόφος), mane or crest, referring to its long pterotic-supracleithral crest or ridge

Scoloplax empousa Schaefer, Weitzman & Britski 1989 Émpousa (Ἔμπουσα), in Greek mythology a one-legged specter assuming various forms, referring to this catfish’s “rather bizarre external appearance”