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Ciliata Couch 1832 Neo-Latin for fringed with hairlike appendages (ciliate), referring to a “ciliated membrane placed in a chink behind the head” (i.e., a row of small, fleshy filaments behind first dorsal-fin ray) of C. glauca (=mustela)

Ciliata mustela (Linnaeus 1758) Latin for weasel, a name for a gadid fish that dates back to Pliny, allusion not evident

Ciliata septentrionalis (Collett 1875) Latin for northern, referring to its distribution, described from Norway and occurring in the North Sea, eastern North Atlantic and Western Baltic Sea

Ciliata tchangi Li 1994 in honor of Li’s teacher, ichthyologist Tchunlin (or Tchung-Lin) Tchang (1897–1963), “memorializing his stunning achievements in studies of Chinese fishes”

Enchelyopus Bloch & Schneider 1801 énchelys (ἔγχελυς), eel; opus, perhaps from ṓps (ὦψ), eye or face (i.e., appearance), i.e., resembling an eel (“facie anguillae”), perhaps referring to its slippery body (“Corpus lubricum”)

Enchelyopus cimbrius (Linnaeus 1766) Neo-Latin adjective derived from Cimbri, a people of northern Germany, referring to its occurrence in the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula, also known as Jutland, bounded by the North Sea to the west, the Skagerrak to the north, the Kattegat (type locality) and Baltic Sea to the east and Germany to the south

Gaidropsarus Rafinesque 1810 gáidaros (γάιδαρος), donkey or ass, perhaps evoking onos (ὄνος), donkey or ass (asellus in Latin), a name dating to Aristotle for an unidentified gadiform fish, posssibly Phycis blennoides (Gadidae); opsarus, perhaps from opsárion (ὀψάριον), a little fish used as a relish that complements the staple of a meal (the type species, G. mustellaris [=mediterraneus] is palatable and sometimes sold fresh in small markets)

Gaidropsarus argentatus (Reinhardt 1837) Latin for silvery, proposed without a description, possibly referring to juvenile coloration (adults are brown or brick red, with a pink belly and a bluish hue around the head)

Gaidropsarus capensis (Kaup 1858) -ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Kaup did not provide type locality or distribution data, presumably Cape of Good Hope based on its occurrence in the southeastern Atlantic and southwestern Indian oceans

Gaidropsarus ensis (Reinhardt 1837) Latin for sword; proposed without a description, probably referring to long first ray of dorsal fin, as long as head

Gaidropsarus gallaeciae Bañón, Baldó, Serrano, Barros-García & Carlos 2022 of Gallaecia, an ancient Roman Iberian province, now called Galicia, the westernmost region of Spain, referring to the Galicia Bank, northeast Atlantic, type locality

Gaidropsarus granti (Regan 1903) in honor of Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), who acquired a collection of fishes from the Azores, including type of this one

Gaidropsarus guttatus (Collett 1890) Latin for dappled, speckled or spotted, referring to numerous white spots on blackish body

Gaidropsarus insularum Sivertsen 1945 Latin for of islands, referring to its occurrence in small tidewater pools on Tristan da Cunha (type locality), a remote island in the southeast Atlantic

Gaidropsarus macrophthalmus (Günther 1867) big-eyed, from makrós (μακρός), long or large, and ophthalmós (ὀφθαλμός), eye, referring to its larger eye compared with congeners of the same size

Gaidropsarus mauli Biscoito & Saldanha 2018 in honor of “good friend and fine ichthyologist” Günther Edmund Maul (1909–1997), former director of the Funchal Natural History Museum, Madeira, for his “outstanding” contribution to the knowledge of Atlantic fishes

Gaidropsarus mauritanicus Knorrn, Beuck & Freiwald 2024 -icus (L.), belonging to: Mauritania, “known for its species-rich marine ecosystems, among them the most extensive known ‘chain’-shaped, habitat-forming deep-water coral ecosystem, to which this species is associated”

Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (Linnaeus 1758) named for its occurrence in the Mediterranean Sea

Gaidropsarus novaezealandiae (Hector 1874) of New Zealand, referring to type locality at Cape Campbell, Cook Strait

Gaidropsarus pakhorukovi Shcherbachev 1995 in honor of Ukrainian ichthyologist Nikolay P. Pakhorukov, Institute of the Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Sevastopol, who collected holotype

Gaidropsarus parini Svetovidov 1986 in honor of ichthyologist Nikolai Vasil’evich Parin (1932–2012), Russian Academy of Sciences, who provided specimens for Svetovidov’s revision of the genus

Gaidropsarus vulgaris (Cloquet 1824) Latin for common, a name that dates to Rondelet (1554), “De Mustella vulgari”