Revised 26 Oct. 2023 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Subfamily LEPTOBOTIINAE Nalbant 2002  Leptobotia Bleeker 1870 leptós (Gr. λεπτός), fine or thin, referring to elongate, compressed body of L. elongata, i.e., a thin Botia Leptobotia bellacauda Bohlen & Šlechtová 2016 bella, from bellus (L.), beautiful; cauda (L.), tail, referring to prominent black bar […]

Updated 26 Dec. 2023 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Subfamily BALITORINAE Swainson 1839 Balitora Gray 1830 local Gangetic word meaning “sand-digger,” referring to its living among stones in rapid mountain streams, or in rivers with pure sandy bottoms, usually close to the bottom Balitora anlongensis Luo, Chen, Zhao, Yu, Lan & Zhou 2023 […]

Updated 28 Oct. 2022 PDF version (with illustration) Phractolaemus Boulenger 1901 phraktós (Gr. φρακτός), protected; laimós (Gr. λαιμός), throat, referring to a pair of large bones covering the throat, the right overlapping the left Phractolaemus ansorgii Boulenger 1901 in honor of English explorer and collector William John Ansorge (1850-1913), who collected holotype

Revised 31 Jan. 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Barbantus Parr 1951 etymology not explained, perhaps a variant spelling of barbatus (L.), bearded, referring to “bony horizontal spine [that] projects laterally on each side from the tip of the lower jaw” of B. curvifrons Barbantus curvifrons (Roule & Angel 1931) curvus (L.), curved; […]

Updated 27 Oct. 2023 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Cromeria Boulenger 1901 –ia (L. suffix), belonging to: Lord Cromer (Evelyn Baring, 1841–1917), British Consul-General of Egypt (1883–1907) Cromeria nilotica Boulenger 1901 –ica (L.), belonging to: upper Nile River basin of Eastern Africa, where it occurs Cromeria occidentalis Daget 1954 Latin for western, referring […]

Revised 10 March 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Alepocephalus Risso 1820 á– (Gr. ἄ), without; lepίs (Gr. λεπίς), scale; cephalus, from kephalḗ (Gr. κεφαλή), head, referring to absence of scales on head (hence “slickhead” vernacular) Alepocephalus agassizii Goode & Bean 1883 in honor of Swiss-born American mining magnate and zoologist Alexander Agassiz […]

Revised 17 Sept. 2022 PDF version (with illustrations) Jenkinsia Jordan & Evermann 1896 -ia (L. suffix), pertaining to: Oliver Peebles Jenkins (1850–1935), physiology professor at Stanford University (California, USA), for his work on the fishes of Mexico and the Hawaiian Island Jenkinsia lamprotaenia (Gosse 1851) lamprós (Gr. λαμπρός), bright; taenia (L.), from tainía (Gr. ταινία), […]

Revised 24 May 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Amblygaster Bleeker 1849 amblýs (Gr. ἀμβλύς), blunt; gastḗr (Gr. γαστήρ), belly or stomach, referring to obtuse, round and smooth (unserrated) belly (“ventre obtuso rotundata non serrato”) of A. clupeoides Amblygaster clupeoides Bleeker 1849 –oides, Latinized suffix adopted from eī́dos (Gr. εἶδος), form or shape: clupea, […]

Revised 17 Sept. 2022 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Clupea Linnaeus 1758 Latin vernacular for a herring-like fish, perhaps derived from Clypea or Clupea, a North African coastal town (2nd century BC) whose name was confused by Renaissance naturalists (e.g., Rondelet and Salviani) with a fish (probably a lamprey) but also applied by […]

Revised 21 July 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Old World Anchovies Subfamily COILIINAE Bleeker 1872 Coilia Gray 1830 etymology not explained, perhaps a local Indian name, or perhaps from koilía (Gr. κοιλία), belly or abdomen, referring to serrated abdomen of Engraulis hamiltonii (=C. ramcarati) Coilia borneensis Bleeker 1852 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting […]