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| uatumensis | –ensis, suffix denoting place: Uatumã River basin, Brazil, type locality (Harttia uatumensis). |
| ucayalensis | Named for the Ucayali River, Peru, South America. |
| umbrosa | Latin for shady, referring to dark pigmentation on dorsal and anterior portions of the snout compared with unpigmented snout on the geographically proximate and somewhat externally similar C. montana (Cetopsis umbrosa). |
| undecimalis | Latin for eleven, referring to number of dorsal-fin rays (I, 10) compared to the closely related Chaetostomus duodecimalis (=P. etentaculatus), which has 12 (I, 11), (Ptergoplichthys undecimalis). |
| undulatus | From the Latin undulatus, like a wave. |
| unicolor | One colour. |
| unifasciatus | One striped. |
| unillano | Species name from Latin prefix 'uni' meaning one, unique, and from the Spanish word 'llano' meaning a plain terrain; alluding to the savannas or plains crossed by tributaries and the Orinoco River in Colombia and Venezuela (Pseudohemiodon unillano). |
| utik | The specific name utik: from Ikan (=fish) Manong utik, local Jakartan (Batavian) name for this catfish [also spelled oetik by Bleeker later in 1846, which is frequently used in modern literature, but utik was clearly Bleeker’s intent and appears to have priority by a few months], (Arius utik). |
| uranoscopus | From the Greek 'ouranos' (sky) and 'skopos' (literally watchman, 'skopeoo' means to look at), referring to the supero-lateral position of the eyes. |
| urbaini | In honour of French biologist and immunologist Achille Urbain (1884–1957), Director, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris), (Ompok urbaini). |
| urostriatum | uro-, from ourá, tail; striatum (L.), furrowed or grooved (i.e., striped), referring to alternating black and white horizontal stripes on tail [spelled urotriatum in heading of account, but corrected in attached printed errata], (Dianema urostriatum). |
| urucu | Named for the type locality, the Rio Urucu basin. Originally, the word comes from the Tupi (‘‘uru-ku’’) for red, derived from the colour of the fruit of the ‘‘urucuzeiro’’ (Bixa orellana L.), low tree of the family Bixacea, native from tropical America. A noun in apposition. |
| uruguayensis | From Uruguay. |
| usmai | Dedicated to Saulo Usma for his contributions to the ichthyological collection building in the Cauca valley, and for promoting an active interchange between Colombian and Venezuelan ichthyologists, since his MSc studies in 2000 at Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Ezequiel Zamora (Guanare, Venezuela). |
| ussuriensis | Named from the Ussuri River on the Russian and Chinese border. |
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