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Milyeringa Whitley 1945 named for Milyering, 20 miles southwest of Vlamingh Head, North West Cape, Western Australia, type locality of M. veritas

Milyeringa justitia Larson & Foster 2013 Latin for justice, to complement the name of its only congener, M. veritas, which means truth: “As truth and justice are supposed to go together, we name this species justitia, from the Latin for justice, in the hope that justice helps the species to survive on Barrow Island, which has been an oilfield since 1967 and is most recently the site of the Gorgon Gas Hub development.”

Milyeringa veritas Whitley 1945 Latin for truth; per Whitley (1951): like “Truth,” this blind cave goby was “found at the bottom of the well,” alluding to a quote attributed to the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Democritus (460 BC–c. 370 BC): “Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth of which, alas! gives but little hope of release.” (another version: “Of truth we know nothing, for truth lies at the bottom of a well.”)

Typhleotris Petit 1933 typhlós (τυφλός), blind, i.e., a blind Eleotris (Eleotridae), referring to its presumed relationship with that genus

Typhleotris madagascariensis Petit 1933 -ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Madagascar, where it is endemic to groundwaters of the Mahafaly Plateau

Typhleotris mararybe Sparks & Chakrabarty 2012 derived from the Malagasy words marary (ill or sick) and be (big), meaning “very sick” or “big sickness,” referring to the strange and debilitating viral fever that members of the field team suffered after diving in the Madagascar sinkhole where it occurs

Typhleotris pauliani Arnoult 1959 in honor of French entomologist and former deputy director of the Institut de Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar, Renaud Paulian (1913–2003), who collected type specimens and did seminal work on western Indian Ocean biogeography