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| jacksoni | In honour of P .B .N. Jackson, the Officer-in-charge of the J. F. R. O. Malawi survey who collected the Haplochromis species. |
| jacupiranga | The species name, jacupiranga, refers to the type locality, Parque Estadual de Jacupiranga, município de Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil. Jacupiranga is also the indigenous Tupylanguage name for a species of bird native to the region (Penelope obscura - Cracidae), commonly known as the dusky-legged guan, and comes from yaku (a bird) and piranga (red). Treated here as a noun in apposition. |
| jaensis | –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Ja River at Bitye, Congo system, southern Cameroon, type locality (Clarias jaensis). |
| jaguar | Derived from 'îagûara' in the indigenous language Tupi- Guarani, which means panther, in reference to the black dotted colour pattern on a clear background. A noun in apposition. |
| jaguribensis | Hypostomus named after this river location (Rio Jaguaribé at Barro Alto, Brazil). |
| jahu | The specific name jahu: Presumably local name for this catfish along the Rio Paraná in São Paulo, Brazil (Zungaro jahu). |
| janeirensis | From Rio de Janeiro or the State off. |
| jantjae | In honour of Lujan’s mother Jeanne, nicknamed Jantje (pronounced yäntchi) prior to her emigration from the Netherlands, “in deep appreciation for her hard work and material and emotional encouragement that promoted [Lujan’s] professional development and made this research possible” (Avalithoxus jantjae). |
| jantjae | Named for the author's (Nathan K. Lujan) mother, nicknamed Jantje prior to her emigration from the Netherlands, in deep appreciation for her hard work and material and emotional encouragement that promoted his professional development and made his research possible. |
| jaracatiá | Indigenous name given to a fructiferous tree common in the region. A noun in apposition. |
| jatius | Latinisation of Jat from Jat gagora, local Bengali name for this catfish in India [a noun in apposition, often incorrectly spelled jatia], (Arius jatius). |
| jerdoni | Named after the ichthyologist T C Jerdon. |
| jiwanae | Named after Dr. Jiwan Shrestha, for her pioneering work on elucidating the ichthyofaunal diversity of Nepal. A noun in the genitive, (Glyptothorax jiwanae). |
| johnsoni | In honour of Johnson. |
| johnelsi | In honour of Swedish zoologist and fisheries biologist Alf G. Johnels (1916–2010), Swedish Museum of Natural History, who observed and reported the first specimens in 1954 (Chrysichthys johnelsi). |
| johnii | In honour of American geologist Orestes Saint John (1841–1921), who collected holotype during Thayer Expedition to Brazil (1865–1866), (Hypostomus johnii). |
| jordani | Named in honour of C. Basil Jordan, the American zoologist. |
| joropo | Joropo refers to a collection of musical styles in the Llanos, the Orinoco-basin - because Chaetostoma joropo lives there. |
| joselimai/anus | In honour of Brazilian ichthyologist José Lima de Figueiredo (b. 1943), Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, who drew the first author’s attention to the “peculiar” (translation) genera now known as Leporacanthicus and Hopliancistrus (Leporacanthicus joselimai). |
| jubata | Maned or crested, presumably referring to the thick band of long, hair-like bristles on each side of the heads of males (Rineloricaria jubata). |
| julii | Named in honour of a now unknown Mr. Julius. |
| jumaorum | –orum (L.), commemorative suffix, plural: named for the Juma, a large Indian tribe who were “butchered and wiped out” of the region around the Rio Juma (type locality), Amazonas state, Brazil; in the 18th century, the Juma had a population of ~15,000, but only one nuclear family (a father and three daughters) survives today (Rhinotocinclus jumaorum). |
| jumbo | Pertaining to the larger size and girth of this Parotocinclus species against the rest of the genus. |
| juruense | This "pim" (Brachyplatystoma) named after the river of the type locality. Rio Jurua. |
| juruensis | –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Río Jurua, Brazil, type locality (Leptodoras juruensis). |
| jussariensis | Refers to Jussari Municipality, where the new species was discovered and collected, (Ituglanis jussariensis). |
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