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Rondeletia Goode & Bean 1895 -ia (L. suffix), belonging to: Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566), “the French ichthyologist of the seventeenth [sic] century”

Rondeletia bicolor Goode & Bean 1895 bi-, from bis (L.), twice, i.e., two-colored, “purplish-black, with cherry-colored margins to the fins; whitish in spirits” (apparently the orange to reddish-brown color inside mouth and gill cavities, hence the “redmouth” vernacular, was not known at the time)

Rondeletia loricata Abe & Hotta 1963 Latin for armored or clothed in mail, referring to “remarkably expanded and swollen” bones of pectoral girdle