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Fangfangia Britz, Kottelat & Tan 2012 –ia (L. suffix), belonging to: Chinese ichthyologist Fang Fang (1962–2010), “a passionate and productive cypriniform researcher, who left us too early” (gall duct cancer), for her contribution to danionid taxonomy and phylogeny

Fangfangia spinicleithralis Britz, Kottelat & Tan 2012 spina, thorn; cleithralis, scientific Neo-Latin adjective derived from kleîthron (Gr. κλεῖθρον), cleithrum (main element of dermal shoulder girdle), referring to unique pointed anterior and posterior spines

Sundadanio Kottelat & Witte 1999 Sunda, large islands of western Indonesia (Borneo and Sumatra), where this genus occurs); Danio, presumed to be related to that genus (Danionidae)

Sundadanio atomus Conway, Kottelat & Tan 2011 Latin for an indivisible particle, referring to its small size (up to 15.7 mm SL); name also alludes to the Middle English atomy, a diminutive fairy creature or sprite, a team of which drew Queen Mab’s carriage in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Sundadanio axelrodi (Brittan 1976) in honor of American pet-book publisher and aquarist Herbert R. Axelrod (1927–2017), who discovered this species in the tanks of a Singapore aquarium fish exporter, for the “introduction of many new species into the aquarium-fish trade, a substantial number of which have proved to be new to science”

Sundadanio echinus Conway, Kottelat & Tan 2011 Latin for hedgehog, referring to the large, spiny tubercles on lower jaw of all congeners but first discovered on this species

Sundadanio gargula Conway, Kottelat & Tan 2011 derived from gar-, an onomatope common to many ancient European languages for boiling water or water flowing through a gullet, and the Latin gula, throat, which gave rise to the French gargoille and English gargoyle, referring to the “somewhat grotesque” appearance of the head and throat of tuberculate males

Sundadanio goblinus Conway, Kottelat & Tan 2011 Latinization of the Anglo-French goblin, an ugly or grotesque sprite that is usually mischievous and sometimes evil and malicious, referring to the small size (characteristic of genus) and somewhat “gnarled” appearance of this species

Sundadanio margarition Conway, Kottelat & Tan 2011 Latin for a little pearl (authors say “small jewel”), referring to the shimmering live coloration of all members of genus

Sundadanio retiarius Conway, Kottelat & Tan 2011 Latin for a Roman a gladiator who used a net to entangle his adversary, referring to the reticulated pattern along the fish’s dorsal surface

Sundadanio rubellus Conway, Kottelat & Tan 2011 Latin for reddish, referring to live coloration of fins in males