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| daemon | From daímon (Gr.), “supernatural entities hierarchically between gods and mortals, including inferior divinities and ghosts of some dead men,” i.e., a demonic fish from a human standpoint (Paracanthopoma daemon). |
| daguae | Of the Dagua River basin, Colombia, where it is endemic (Cordylancistrus daguae). |
| dahli | In honour of Norwegian zoologist and explorer Knut Dahl (1871-1951), who collected type (Anodontiglanis dahli). |
| daidalmatos | Derived from daídalon, a work of art, and/or daídalos, dappled or sheeny, i.e., a dappled or spotted work of art, referring to large dark spots evenly distributed all over its body, (Chaetostoma daidalmatos). |
| dali | The specific name (a noun in apposition) is an allusion to the Spanish artist Salvador Dali, in reference to his famously long moustache (or whisker). |
| damasceni | Patronym not identified, probably in honour of Col. José Damasceno Nogueira, who hosted Steindachner at his home in Filomeno, Brazil, in June 1903, near type locality, (Ancistrus damasceni). |
| dani | The specific name " dani " is in honour of Daniela Fernandes Roxo, FF Roxo's sister. |
| daraha | A local spelling of Rio Daraá, Amazonas, Brazil, type locality (Rineloricaria daraha). |
| dasycephalus | dasys, rough; cephalus, head, referring to the “coarsely granulated” crown of head (Cathorops dasycephalus). |
| davissinghi | In honour of the late Davis Franc Singh, Senior Scientist, Sálim Ali Center for Ornithology and Natural History, who was the “brain” behind for the survey that collected type and for 10-plus years fish and fish-habitat conservation work in the Western Ghats of India, (Glyptothorax davissinghi). |
| daugueti | In honour of Paul Dauguet (1883-?), merchant seaman and commander of le Lanessan, from which type was collected (Cryptarius daugueti). |
| davidi | After a personal name. |
| davidsandsi | Named in honour of English aquarist and amateur Corydoras taxonomist David Sands (b. 1951), for his “underestimated contribution to the popularisation of catfishes” (Corydoras davidsandsi). |
| davisi | In honour of “Dr. Davis,” possibly Walter Gould Davis (1851–1919), Argentine Meteorological Service, “who in various ways” assisted Haseman during the latter part of his collecting trip to South America, (Cambeva davisi). |
| dayi | In honour of Sir Francis Day, (1829-1889). |
| debauwi | In honour of Lieut. Guillaume De Bauw (1865–1914), Belgian Army officer, who collected holotype (Pareutropius debauwi). |
| debilittera | debilis (L.), weak; littera (L.), a letter, referring to absent or indistinct E-shaped mark on snout (compared with distinct mark on H. furunculus and H. zebra), (Hypancistrus debilittera). |
| decaradiatus | deci-, ten; radiatus, rayed, referring to the 10 rays in ventral fin (Trachelyichthys decaradiatus). |
| deckenii | In honour of Karl Klaus von der Decken (1833-1865), German explorer who collected the type specimen (Chiloglanis deckeni). |
| decorus | Elegant; decorative; becoming. |
| delphax | From the Greek delphax = ‘young pig’, alluding to its feeding behaviour. |
| demerarae | (Dutch: Demerary) is a historical region in the Guianas on the north coast of South America which is now part of the country of Guyana. |
| demantoides | The specific name of demantoid, a green garnet gemstone. |
| dentatus | With teeth; serrated. |
| dentex | From dens (L.), tooth, referring to its “comparatively large” teeth (Panaqolus dentex). |
| denticulatus | From the Latin denticulatus, meaning denticulate or with small teeth, a reference to the well-marked and quite numerous denticles on the posterior margin of the dorsal spine of this species (Synodontis denticulatus). |
| depinnai | Dedicated to Dr. Mário de Pinna. |
| depressostris | depressus (L.), pressed down; rostris, Neo-Latin scientific adjective of rostrum (L.), snout, referring to its depressed snout (“rostro depresso”), (Schilbe depressostris). |
| depressus | depressus: referring to its “greatly depressed” body (Pterobunocephalus depressus). |
| deqinensis | –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Dequin County, Yunnan Province, China, type locality, (Glyptothorax deqinensis). |
| derbyi | In honour of Mr. C. F. Derby (no other information available), who collected holotype (Loricariichthys derbyi). |
| dermorhynchum | Skin-nosed, from dérma, skin, and rhýnchos, snout, referring to “entire margin of the snout naked, soft, swollen, without tentacles” (Chaetostoma dermorhynchum). |
| desana | The specific name honors the Desana, an ethnic group that inhabits the rio Tiquié basin, which is closely related linguistically andculturally to the Tukano indians, who also inhabit the rio Tiquié basin (Ribeiro 1995). A name in apposition. This name is also an allusion to the resemblance between the mimic pair C. desana and C. tukano. |
| deweyeri | In honour of Marcel Van de Weyer, owner and founder of Aquaria-Antwerp, an aquarium-fish importer and retailer, who provided holotype (Corydoras deweyeri). |
| dhonti | In honour of G. Dhont-De Bie, Belgian East African Expeditionary Force, member of Louis Stappers’ expedition to Lakes Tanganyika, where he collected holotype (Synodontis dhonti). |
| dialeukos | From the Greek dialeukos, means marked with white, in reference to the white or light cream colour of the cheek. A noun in apposition. |
| dibrugarensis | Named after its type locality, Dibrugarh. |
| dichromum | di-, from dis (L.), in two; chromum, from chrõma, skin or colour, referring to its ability to change body colour between brown and green (Acestridium dichromum). |
| diegoi | In honour of Diego da Silva, who first collected fishes in Campina da Alegria at the type locality of this new species, (Cambeva diegoi). |
| difluviatilis | The specific name difluviatilis: di– (Gr. prefix), from dýo, two; fluviatilis, Latin for “of a river,” referring to its occurrence in two major drainage basins (Paraná and São Francisco) in Brazil (Brochis difluviatilis). |
| dihangensis | The species named after Dihang (Siang) River, where first collected this species (Glyptothorax dihangensis). |
| dikrongensis | Named for its type locality, Dikrong River. An adjective, (Glyptothorax dikrongensis). |
| dimorphica | From the Greek di (two) and morphe (relative to shape), referring to the two colour patterns of adult specimens, (Cambeva dimorphica). |
| dinema | di-, from dýo, two; nëma, thread or yarn, referring to pair of very thin, short barbels, placed far posteriorly on the chin (Belodontichthys dinema). |
| dinizae | In honour of Débora Diniz, State University of Southwest Bahia (Brazil), for her contribution to the cytogenetic studies of Neotropical freshwater fishes (Rhinotocinclus dinizae). |
| dioctes | Derived from Ancient Greek, refers to the species' hunting qualities. (Hemiarius dioctes). |
| diphyes | From the Greek word meaning double nature which refers to the unique colour patterns observed in this species – spotted and striped. |
| discolor | From the Latin color, color, and the prefix dis-, meaning not of the same color, in allusion to the remarkable color pattern with the second and third dark bars coalesced. A noun in apposition. |
| discus | Disc-shaped. |
| disjunctivus | Latin for placed in opposition or opposed to each other (but here meaning lacking connection), describing how the former “zoogeographical neighbourhood” between P. pardalis (Amazonas) and P. anisitsi (Paraguay) was interrupted by the “arrival” of P. disjunctivus (Madeira), (Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus). |
| dispar | Unequal; dissimilar in appearance, (of the sexes). |
| displicatus | From the Latin displicos, masculine, meaning spread, well distributed, in allusion to the wider distribution of the species compared to congeners. An adjective, (Trachelyichthys displicatus). |
| dissidens | The specific name of dissidens: disagreeing or dissident, i.e., different from the six other species described in the same paper (Lúcia Rapp Py-Daniel 2001), (Hartia dissidens). |
| djambal | Malayan and Sundanese name for this catfish (Pangasius djambal). |
| doceanus | Refering to the river Doce, the type locality of the species (Parotocinclus doceanus). |
| docmak | Local name for this catfish along the Lower Nile river delta, Egypt (also spelled dogmak and docmac), (Bagrus docmak). |
| dolicholophia | dolichós, long; lophia, from lóphos, mane or crest, referring to its long pterotic-supracleithral crest or ridge (Scoloplax dolicholophia). |
| dolichonema | Comes from the Greek adjective “dolikhos,” meaning long, and the noun “nema,” meaning thread or yarn, which refers to the length of filamentous extensions with pectoral-fin spines and caudal fins that are the longest in congeners except for B. bagarius. The suggested common name in Chinese is Pinyin: chang si pi, (Bagarius dolichonema). |
| dolichopterus | Long, or lengthy fins. |
| dolichurus | dolichos, long; oura, tail, referring to its “very long” tail relative to others then classified in the short-tailed subfamily Bunocephalinae (Pterobunocephalus dolichurus). |
| dominguense | Refers to the occurrence of the new species in the Município of São Domingos, Estado de Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, (Cambeva dominguense). |
| dorbignyi | In honour of Alcide d’Orbigny (1802–1857), French explorer and naturalist, who collected in South America for the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris) from 1827–1833 (Rhinodoras dorbignyi). |
| doriae | In honour of G. Doria , the Italian collector and zoologist. |
| dorsale | Latin for “of the back,” allusion not explained nor evident; proposed in a footnote as a geographical variant of C. anomalus, which is described as having a dorsal spine equal or shorter than snout length, “base of dorsal equal to its distance from the caudal[,] the last ray reaching to the adipose,” back (dorsum) with dark cross-shades, and dorsal rays with small white dots (Chaetostoma dorsale). |
| dorsalis | Drawing attention to the dorsal area. |
| dorsomaculatus | With a spotted back, (or dorsal fin). |
| dumerili | In honour of Bleeker’s friend August Duméril (1812-1870), herpetologist and ichthyologist, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris), who kindly allowed Bleeker to describe it (Tachysurus dumerili). |
| dumus | Latin for thorn-bush, referring to well-developed odontodes on pectoral-fin spines and snout (Pseudolithoxus dumus). |
| dunni | In honour of Emmett Reid Dunn (1894-1956), “in appreciation of his studies on Colombian herpetology” (Tatia dunni). |
| duplicareus | From the Latin; duplicare = to duplicate, alludes to the similar colour pattern in C. duplicareus and C. adolfoi (Sands, 1995). |
| dussumieri | In honour of Jean-Jacques Dussumier (1792-1883), French voyager and merchant, who reported on this fish from off the Malabar coast of India (Plicofillis dussumieri). |
| dybowskii | In honour of Jean Dybowski (1856-1928), French-Polish agronomist, naturalist and explorer, who collected type (Euchilichthys dybowskii). |
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