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| gabiru | Named for Leandro Melo de Sousa, known to his friends as "Gabiru", for his many contributions to the understanding of the Doradidae, including his MSc and PhD dissertations (Sousa & Rapp Py-Daniel, 2005; Sousa, 2010). Leandro also helped to collect part of the type series of the new species (Hassar gabiru). Treated as a noun in apposition. |
| gabonensis | From the African country of Gabon. |
| galactica | Derived from the Ancient Greek word galaktikós meaning milky, an allusion to the rows of yellowish white diffuse vermiculate marks present in the flank of the new species, reminiscent of the Milky Way. |
| galaxias | Milky, also spotted. (Cambeva galactica-Leporacanthicus galaxias). |
| gallagheri | Named for Francis Richard Gallagher, mailroom supervisor at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, for his 37 years of dedicated service to the global community of taxonomists & systematists by shipping & receiving countless loans of specimens. |
| galeatus | Helmeted, presumably referring to the skin-covered cephalic shield (Trachelyopterus galeatus). |
| gamabelardense | The name gamabelardense (gamma, the third letter of the Greek alphabet, and abelardense, a Portuguese word referring to people born in Abelardo Luz municipality) is an allusion to the third new species of Cambeva known to occur in this area. The other two species are described in Costa et al. (2022). |
| gambiensis | From the Gambia River in Africa. |
| gameroi | In honour of Alonso Gamero (1923-1980), Dean of the Faculty of Science, Universidad Central de Venezuela, who guided Mago-Leccia’s introduction to ichthyology (Entomocorus gameroi). |
| garbei | Named in honour of Mr.Ernesto Garbe. |
| gariepinus | –inus (L.), belonging to: Gariep (meaning “Great Water”) River (now known as Orange River), the longest river in South Africa, type locality (Clarias gariepinus). |
| garua | Local Bengali name for this catfish in India (Clupisoma garua). |
| geayi | After a personal name. |
| gelatinosus | From gelatus (L.), frozen or congealed, referring to its soft, gelatinous consistency and pale, translucent colour; “not good classical Latin,” the authors write, “but the adjective has been applied by other taxonomists to translucent creatures” (Malacoglanis gelatinosus). |
| geledensis | Named for Geledi on the Shebeli in Somalia, its type locality (Synodontis geledensis). |
| geminus | From the Latin geminus, meaning twin-born; in allusion to the close morphological similarity with Kryptopterus cryptopterus. |
| genisetiger | génys, jaw (usually the cheek or lower jaw in ichthyology); seta or saeta (L.), hair or bristle; –iger (L.), to have or bear, referring to prominent bristles on interopercle and lower margin of head (Pseudancistrus genisetiger). |
| geoffroy | Dedicated to Dr.Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. |
| geryi | In honour of Dr. Jacques Gery, a noted authority on Characoids. |
| geumgangensis | Named after the Geum River (Geumgang in Korean), the type locality (Liobagrus geumgangensis). |
| gibbiceps | With a hump on the head. |
| gibbosa/us | Humped-backed. |
| gigas | Latin meaning Giant. |
| gilberti | In honour of friend and colleague Charles H. Gilbert (1859–1928), American ichthyologist and fisheries biologist (Noturus gilberti). |
| gilli | In honour of Edwin Leonard Gill (1877-1956), Director, South African Museum (noting that it is “appropriate” that A. sclateri was named after Gill’s predecessor), (Austroglanis gilli). |
| gladiator | From the Latin gladiator, meaning swordsman, in reference to the large and serrated pectoral spines of this species (Noturus). |
| gladysae | Dedicated to its original collector Gladys Ana María Monasterio de Gonzo. |
| glanis | The name of a kind of fish. |
| gnomus | Neo-Latin for gnome, a diminutive fabled being or dwarf, referring to small adult size (up to 70.8 mm) and garish banded colouration (Panaqolus gnomus). |
| gobioides | –oides, Neo-Latin from ei´dos (Gr.), having the form of: referring to its pelvic fins, which are fused like those of a goby (Gobius) [an apparent misnomer; cetopsid pelvic fins are closely positioned but they are not fused (Richard P. Vari, pers. comm), (Cetopsis fimbriata). |
| goeldii | Patronym not identified but almost certainly in honour of Swiss-Brazilian zoologist Émil (or Emílio) Goeldi (1859–1917), Director of the Museo Paraense and author of numerous works on the natural history of Brazil (from where this catfish was described), (Cheirocerus goeldii). |
| gogra | gograh, Marathi vernacular for this species in India, which, as Sykes explained in 1841, he adopted “so that naturalists who travel the country can always obtain” the species (Rita gogra). |
| gomezi | Named in honour of Dr. Juan Antonio Gómez. |
| gonzalezi | In honour of civil engineer Marcelo González Molina (1923-2000), who provided access to the type locality (Amblydoras gonzalezi). |
| gossei | In honour of Dr. Jean-Pierre Gosse. |
| gracilis | Graceful; slender. |
| graeffei | In honour of Swiss entomologist Eduard Heinrich Gräffe (1833-1916), who, while employed by Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy, a wealthy shipping magnate, curated a natural history collection that introduced several new species from the South Pacific to science, including this catfish (Neoarius graeffei). |
| grandiops | grandis: from the Latin meaning large or big, and ops meaning eye, a reference to the large eye. |
| grandis | Grown large. |
| granti | Corydoras granti is named after Steven Grant, aquarist and amateur ichthyologist who was the first to realise the distinctness of this species from the true C. arcuatus. A genitive noun. |
| granulus | Named after the nature of skin with granules. |
| grenfelli | Named for the collector of the type specimen, Mr. G. Grenfel, Protestant missionary. |
| greshoffi | This Synodontis was named after its collector, M.A.Greshoff. |
| griseus | From the Latin griseus = ‘grey’, alluding to the colour of the species. |
| grixalvii | In memory of Don Mariano Grixalva, a “respectable scholar” who “disseminated at Popayan [Colombia, where this catfish occurs] a taste for the physical sciences, which he himself cultivated with success” (translation), (Astroblepus grixalvii). |
| gryphus | From the Latin, the specific name gryphus means griffon, mythical creature with a lion body and a head and wings of a hawk or eagle, in allusion to the conspicuous elongation of pectoral-fin spine and its first branched ray, like a wing in male specimens. A noun in apposition. |
| guacamaya | Specific name is derived from the name of the rapids on the middle Rio Cuao where the first specimens were encountered. |
| guacharote | per Valenciennes, local name for this catfish on Puerto Rico, but this catfish does not occur there (possibly its name in the Lake Maracaibo basin of Venezuela, its actual type locality), (Lasiancistrus guacharote). |
| guahiborum | Named for the Guahibo, a tribe of people inhabiting parts of southern Venezuela and western Colombia for the help some members of the tribe provided in collecting specimens (H. guahiborum) in the upper Río Ventuari. |
| guapore | Named after Rio Guapore, where this Corydoras was collected. |
| guaraquessaba | Named after Munucipio de Guaraqueçaba and the Area de Proteçao Ambiental de Guaraqueçaba, the area of occurrence of this species. |
| guareiensis | The name guareiensis refers to the occurrence of the new species in the Guareí river drainage, a noun in apposition. |
| guatemalensis | From Guatemala. |
| guato | In honour of the indigenous Guató people, who are affectionately known as “people of the Pantanal waters” due to their primary mode of transportation, canoes. Historically, the Guató people inhabited an extensive area along the Rio Paraguai (Schmidt, 1942). However, in the 1940s, they began to lose their territory due to cattle ranching, and many relocated to cities such as Cáceres and Corumbá. This dispersal led to a reduction in the Guató population, and since then, they have been fighting for recognition of their ethnicity and the demarcation of their lands (Costa, 2015). The choice of guato is a homage to the resilience and cultural significance of these people who inhabit the same region where the new species is found. It also recognizes the ongoing struggles with land delimitation that indigenous communities continue to face, particularly in Brazil. A noun in apposition (Pimelodella guato). |
| guayoensis | –ensis, suffix denoting place: Caño de Guayo, Delta Amacuro, Estado Delta, Venezuela, type locality (Megalodoras guayoensis). |
| guentheri | In honour of Albert C. L. G. Guenther, the German ichthyologist, (1830-1914). |
| guianense/is | Named after the Guianas. |
| gulare | Latin for of the throat, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to plates or scutes on throat (Hypoptopoma gulare). |
| gulio | latinisation of Guli, local Bengali name for this species in India (Mystus gulio). |
| guttata/us | Spotted, (with drop-shaped spots). |
| gymnogaster | gymnós, bare or naked; gast?r, belly or stomach, referring to naked area of skin between anterior lateral abdominal plates (Acestridium gymnogaster). |
| gymnorhynchus | gymnos, bare or naked; rhynchus, snout, referring to reduced absence of tentacles (described from a female, which lacks or has fewer tentacles), (Ancistrus gymnorhynchus). |
| gyrina/us | (jie-wren´-us) means tadpole. |
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