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| qiongzhouensis | Derived from Qiongzhou, the historical designation for Hainan Island and the primary distributional range of this species. This species also inhabits the Moyang River in Guangdong Province, a region situated across the Qiongzhou Strait from Hainan Island. This epithet emphasizes the geographical affinity linking the populations of these two adjacent regions. The onomatopoeic Chinese sound of this species is “Qiong Zhou Ni Chang”, (Tachysurus qiongzhouensis) |
| quadrimaculatus | Four spotted. |
| quadriradiatus | Four rays. |
| quadriocellatus | quadri-, from quattuor (L.), four; ocellatus (L.), having little eyes (ocelli) or spots, referring to four white spots on black body (although description indicates there are six: in front of and behind adipose fin, in front of dorsal fin, behind eyes, in front of and behind anal fin), (Glyptothorax quadriocellatus). |
| quadriscutis | quadus, square; scutum, shield, referring to the square shape of the bony plate (occipital process) in front of dorsal fin (Notarius quadriscutis). |
| quelen | In honour of Abbé (Father) Florentin-Louis de Quélen de la Villeglée Villeglée (1762–?), chaplain on expedition during which holotype was collected [presumably a noun in apposition, without the genitive “i”], (Rhamdia quelen). |
| quilombola | quilombola (a noun in the nominative singular standing in apposition to the generic name) honours the Quilombola’s communities of the Rio Trombetas, also called Quilombos. Quilombolas are Afro-Brazilian descendents that escaped from slavery, or after abolition of slavery, that organized agrarian communities according to cultural, religious and geographic backgrounds in different areas in Brazil. The presence of large quilombos in the Amazon and, particularly, in the Rio Trombetas basin deserves recognition, as the first Quilombo fully recognised by the Brazilian government was in Rio Trombetas (Duque, 2009). They are eximious fishermen and profound connoisseurs of the dangerous waters in the Rio Trombetas, as well as important activists of the Quilombola cause in South America. |
| quispei | Roberto Quispe is an ichthyologist at Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, where he was awarded a bachelor’s degree (1991) and a master’s (2009), (Astroblepus quispei). |
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