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| kamilai | Honours our dear friend Dr Kamila Mayumi Duarte Kuabara, an entomologist and lab manager of the Ornithology Department at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. A noun in a genitive case (Leptorhamdia kamilai). |
| kanei | Dedicated to Mr. Kane Grant. |
| kapuri | In honour of entomologist A. P. Kapur, Director, Zoological Survey of India (Pseudolaguvia kapuri). |
| karipuna | The specific name refers to the Karipuna indigenous people that inhabit the region of the Rio Oiapoque, northern Amapá in Brazil. A noun in apposition. |
| katangae | From Katanga, in the Congo region. |
| keletius | Latinisation of kéléti, local Pondichery name for this catfish (and for M. cavasius) in India (Mystus keletius). |
| kelioides | –oides, Neo-Latin from ei´dos (Greek), form or shape: Ikan Keli (Ikan = fish), Malay name for species in the genus Clarias, which it superficially resembles (Encheloclarias kelioides). |
| kelsorum | For the Winemiller Aquatic Ecology Lab which facilitated important ichthyological discoveries, including this new species. |
| keralai | Refers to Kerala, the state of India from which the new species was described firstly (Mystus keralai). |
| khartoumensis | From Khartoum in the Sudan, North East Africa. |
| khavalchor | Local name of Kolhapur, Maharashtra State, India, type locality (Pachypterus khavalchor). |
| khimaera | Derived from the Greek, cimaira or khímaira, a mythological creature with hybrid body, formed essentially by three animals, a lion, a snake and a goat. The specific name khimaera makes an allusion due to the new species possess features of conspicuously distinct species (Hypostomus khimaera). A noun in apposition. |
| kingi | In honour of malacologist Sohtsu G. King (1886-1949), committee member, Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, which published Tchang’s study (Liobagrus kingi). |
| kinja | "True people", self-designation of the indigenous Waimiri-Atroari, who survived three genocidal attempts. |
| kirane | The Paresi people inhabited the plateau called Parecis, from the Arinos River and headwaters of Paraguai River to the headwaters of the Guaporé and Juruena Rivers. Specifically, these rivers spread across the valley of the Sumidouro River, a tributary of the Arinos River, and headwaters of the Sepotuba and Sacuriu-ina Rivers, approximately the same area of occurrence of the new species (Povos Indígenas no Brasil, 2009). In the language of the Paresi, which is from the Aruak family linguistic trunk, kirane means small (Rowan, 2001). The species name alludes to the fact that Farlowella kirane is the smallest species known to date in the genus, reaching up to 96 mm SL. |
| kiriri | Named after the Kiriri Indians who originally inhabited a broad area in eastern Brazil. Nowadays, they are restricted mainly to the municipality of Banzaê, in northern Bahia. The name of the indigenous people can be written as Cariri or Kariri and has its origin in the Tupi language, meaning silent, taciturn. A noun in apposition, (Aspidoras kiriri). |
| kishinouyei | The name of this new species (Euchiloglanis kishinouyei) is for the memory of the late Dr. Kishinouye, director of this expedition (1927-29). He died after he had collected this fish. |
| kivuensis | –ensis, suffix denoting place: region of Kivu (west of Lake Kivu), Democratic Republic of the Congo, type locality (Amphilius kivuensis). |
| knaacki | Named (Corydoras knaacki) for the late Dr. Joachim Knaack (2 January 1933 – 5 December 2012), German physician and biologist. He was an amateur ichthyologist and aquarist who devoted more than 60 years of his life for the study of South American catfishes, especially Corydoras. |
| kneri | Named In honour of Dr. Rudolf Kner, the Austrian ichthyoligist. |
| koensis | –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Ko River, Man, Ivory Coast, type locality (Synodontis koensis). |
| koko | The name koko is a Wayana Amerindian name meaning night, in reference to the dark colouration of the species, and in allusion to the similarly coloured and named Panaqolus nocturnus. A noun in apposition. |
| koladynensis | Named after Koladyne River, Mizoram, India, its type locality. |
| krempfi | In honour of French marine biologist Armand Krempf (1879–1969), Nha Trang Institute of Oceanography (Vietnam), who collected holotype (Pangasius kremfi). |
| krishnai | In honour of Mr. N. Krishna Pillay, who collected holotype after draining a well in 1948 (Horaglanis krishnai). |
| kronei | Dedicated to Mr. Ricardo Krone. |
| krugi | Named for Luiz Krug, professional tourist guide based in the city of Lençóis, in the Chapada Diamantina area, who called our attention of the existence of this new catfish and helped to collect its type series, and for his efforts dedicated to its conservation. |
| kudremukhensis | –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Kudremukh National Park, Western Ghats, India, type locality, (Glyptothorax kudremukhensis). |
| kunenensis | –ensis, suffix denoting place: Kunene River system, Angola-Namibia border, where it appears to be endemic (Zaireichthys kunenensis). |
| kuturnee | 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 kuturnee). |
| kwarup | Named for Kwarup (also known as Kuarup or Quarup), an annual ritual celebrated by the upper Xingu indigenous people in honour of their beloved dead and aimed to bring them back to life; the name is in honour of the nearly 5,500 people belonging to 14 different ethnicities who currently live in the Xingu Indigenous Park, which plays an essential role in the conservation of this and other fish species (Rhinotocinclus kwarup). |
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