Updated 30 July 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Subfamily name from Smiliogaster Bleeker 1860, now a junior synonym of Osteobrama Heckel 1843, from smilíon (Gr. σμιλίον), diminutive of smílē (σμίλη), carving knife or scalpel, and gastḗr (Gr. γαστήρ), belly, referring to sharp (instead of flat) knife-shaped pre-pelvic abdominal keel of Smiliogaster (=Osteobrama) […]
Updated 16 April 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Acapoeta Cockerell 1910 á– (ἄ), Greek privative, not, i.e., not Capoeta, proposed as a subgenus of Capoeta (Barbinae) Acapoeta tanganicae (Boulenger 1900) of Lake Tanganyika, where it is endemic Arabibarbus Borkenhagen 2014 Arabi-, referring to Arabian distribution of this genus, previously placed in the […]
Revised 31 Jan. 2024 PDF version (illustrated) Psilorhynchus McClelland 1838 psilós (Gr. ψιλός), bare, uncovered or smooth (“thin or attenuated” per McClelland); rhýnchos (Gr. ῥύγχος), snout, referring to “elongated and flattened” snouts of P. sucatio and P. variegatus (=balitora) Psilorhynchus amplicephalus Arunachalam, Muralidharan & Sivakumar 2007 broad-headed, from amplus (L.), wide or broad, and kephalḗ […]
Updated 25 June 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Aborichthys Chaudhuri 1913 Abor Hills, Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India, type locality of A. kempi (=A. boutanensis); ichthýs (Gr. ἰχθύς), fish Aborichthys bajpaii Singh & Kosygin 2022 in honor of Prabhat Bajpai, retired Head of Zoology Department, D.A.V. (PG) College, Kanpur, India, for his contribution […]
Updated 16 Aug. 2024 PDF version (illustrated) Annamia Hora 1932 –ia (L. suffix), belonging to: Annam, a French protectorate encompassing the central region of present-day Vietnam, type locality of A. normani Annamia normani (Hora 1931) in honor of English ichthyologist J. R. (John Roxborough) Norman (1898–1944), British Museum (Natural History), who loaned holotype to Hora […]
Updated 16 July 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Acanthopsoides Fowler 1934 –oides, Neo-Latin from eí̄dos (Gr. εἶδος), form or shape: similar to Acantopsis but distinguished by its more backward dorsal, more advanced eye, and ventral origin slightly before dorsal Acanthopsoides delphax Siebert 1991 délphax (Gr. δέλφαξ), mother pig or piglet (depending on […]
Updated 19 July 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Ageneiogarra Garman 1912 ἀ-, Greek privative, i.e., not; geneiosus, Latinized adjective from géneion (Gr. γένειον), chin or beard (i.e., not bearded), proposed as a subgenus of Garra without barbels Ageneiogarra imberba (Garman 1912) im– (L.), not; berba, presumably a variable or incorrect spelling of […]
Updated 24 June 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Aaptosyax Rainboth 1991 áaptos (Gr. ἄαπτος), not to be touched, invincible; sýax (Gr. σύαξ) or sū́ax (σῦαξ), an undetermined kind of fish, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to its large size (up to one meter) and “especially voracious” piscivorous behavior Aaptosyax grypus Rainboth 1991 […]
Revised 28 Feb. 2023 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Osteoglossum Cuvier 1829 osteus (Neo-Latin), bony, from ostéon (Gr. ὀστέον), bone; glossum, from glṓssa (Gr. γλῶσσα), tongue, referring to toothed tongue of O. bicirrhosum, which bites against similarly toothed bones in roof of mouth Osteoglossum bicirrhosum (Cuvier 1829) bi-, from bis (L.), two; cirrhosum […]
Revised 3 Sept. 2023 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Chinese Sucker Subfamily MYXOCYPRININAE Fowler 1958 Myxocyprinus Gill 1878 myxo-, from mýzō (Gr. μύζω), to suck, referring to fleshy, papillose lips that suck up food (hence the common name “sucker”); cyprinus, from kyprí̄nos (Gr. κυπρῖνος), carp, resembling Carpiodes cyprinus Myxocyprinus asiaticus (Bleeker 1864) –icus […]