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Vaillantella Fowler 1905 -ella (L.), diminutive suffix connoting endearment: in honor of Léon Vaillant (1834–1914), “distinguished ichthyologist of the Museum of Natural History of Paris, and well known for his researches in East Indian ichthyology” (and who described the ´type species in 1902)

Vaillantella cinnamomea Kottelat 1994 Neo-Latin for light brown, referring to its body color (without a conspicuous color pattern)

Vaillantella euepiptera (Vaillant 1902) eū́– (Gr. εὖ), good or very; epí– (Gr. ἐπί) or epi– (ἐπι), on top of; pterus, from pterón (Gr. πτερόν) or ptéryx (πτέρυξ), fin (here treated as an adjective, finned), probably referring to its exceptionally long dorsal fin

Vaillantella maassi Weber & de Beaufort 1912 in honor of German anthropologist Alfred Maass (1863–1936), who led expedition to Sumatra during which holotype was collected