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| nami | The specific name is in honour of the young ichthyologist and our best friend Mr. Chu Hoang Nam. The species name is a noun in genitive case (Euchiloglanis nami). |
| nandae | The specific name nandae honours Maria Fernanda Boaz Lehmann, daughter of the first author of this paper and affectionately known as “Nanda”. A noun in genitive. |
| nanodon | Name from the Greek nano, meaning reduced, and odon, meaning teeth. |
| nanus | Dwarf. |
| napoensis | Named after Napo, one of the regions from which it was collected. |
| narcissus | Named after Narcissus, son of the Greek river god, Kephise. According to Greek mythology, a young man named Narcissus was so fascinated when he looked into still water that he fell in love with the beauty of his own reflection. |
| nasus | A nose; a nozzle. |
| natalensis | Named after the the Province of Natal in South Africa. |
| nattereri | In honour of Johann Natterer, the Austrian collector. |
| nauticus | Named after the type locality, the town of Nauta, located on the north bank of the major Upper Amazonian tributary. |
| nebulosa/us | Clouded, dark or mottled. |
| negro | After the River in Bolivia where this Corydoras species was found. |
| nelsoni | Named for Douglas Nelson, for his dedicated service to the ichthyological commnunity since 1983 as Collection Manager of Fishes, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. |
| nettoferreirai | The epithet specific niettoferreirai, is a tribute to ichthyologist Dr. André Luiz Netto Ferreira, of the University of São Paulo - Brazil, by their large contributions to the South American Ichthyology. |
| neumanni | In honour of Neumann. |
| ngouniensis | Specific name referring to the Ngounié River basin, its type locality. |
| nheengatu | The specific epithet, nheengatu, honours the indigenous people of the Amazon. Nheengatu is known as the general language of the Amazon that helped create the cultural identity of the largest Brazilian region. In the nineteenth century Nheengatu was the most commonly spoken language in the Amazon region, in both small and large cities (e.g., Belém, Manaus, Macapá, Santarém, Tefé, and Óbidos). Currently, Nheengatu is being rescued in indigenous schools of the lower rio Tapajós basin. A noun in apposition. |
| nicaraguense/is | From Lake Nicaragua and or from Nicaragua. |
| niceforoi | H. niceforoi was described by Fowler (1943), who used them to honour Brother Nicéforo Maria. Brother Nicéforo was then at the La Salle Institute in Bogota, Colombia, and he shipped many Colombian fish specimens to Fowler at Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences in 1931 and 1932. |
| nickeriensis | From the Nickerie River, Suriname. |
| niger | From the Niger River or to have a black body colour. |
| nigra | The specific name nigra, is a Latin reference to the dark colour pattern of this species (Tatia) |
| nigricauda | Black tail. |
| nigrita | Blackened. |
| nigriventris | Black belly. |
| nigrocollaris | Black collar. |
| nigrodigitatus | Black fingered. |
| nigrolineatus | Black lines. |
| nigromaculatus | Black spots. |
| nigripinnis | Black fin. |
| nigrirostrum | Black nose. |
| nijsseni | Named in honour of Dr. Han Nijssen. |
| nilotica/us | From the Nile River. |
| nitidus | Glittering; bright. |
| nix | From the Latin nix meaning snow, alluding to the colour: in dark individuals the dots look like falling snowflakes, while pale individuals look like they have the whole body covered by snow; treated as a noun in apposition. |
| njassae | From Lake Malawi. |
| noelkempffi | Named after Mr Noel Kempff Mercardo, who was engaged in the protection of wildlife in Bolivia and was killed by the Mafia in 1986. |
| nocturnus | Nocturnus meaning nocturnal, referring to the dark coloration. |
| normani | In honour of John Roxburgh Norman, British ichthyologist (1898-1944). |
| notatus | Marked, (with a spot, usually). |
| notialis | From the Greek notos, meaning southern, in reference to the distribution of this species (southern Borneo). |
| notospilus | With spots on the back. |
| nudiceps | Black belly. |
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