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Species (second name: a group of organisms generally resembling each other and capable of reproduction).

 

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taeniatus Striped; banded.
tamanae Of Río Tamana, Río San Juan system, Chocó Department, Colombia, type locality (Sturisomatichthys tamanae).
tamboensis From the Rio Tambo in Peru.
tanganyikaensis From Lake Tanganyika.
tankei A patronym in honour of Andreas Tanke, a German aquarist very dedicated to the genus Panaqolus, studying its behavior, reproduction, and differences between known forms, keeping these fishes in the aquarium, visiting their habitats, and publishing his findings. He probably was the first to reproduce Panaqolus tankei in captivity. For his (successful) efforts to improve communications between aquarists and scientists to join their forces in an era of less and less money for research and an ever accelerating destruction of natural habitats.
tapanahoniensis From the Tapanahony river, Guyana.
taunayi The specific name of taunayi: in honour of Brazilian historian, professor and novelist Alfonso d’ Escragnolle Taunay (1876-1958), director of Museu Paulista (Ancistrus taunayi).
taylori After a personal name.
teaguei In honour of Gerard Warden Teague (1885-1974), amateur ichthyologist-herpetologist, British Vice-Consul for Paraguay, and Director of Midland Uruguay Railway Company, and Devincenzi’s “enthusiastic collaborator” (translation), who collected part of the type series and co-authored volume in which description appeared (Trachelyopterus teuguei).
teffeana Meaning, –ana, belonging to: Amazon River near Teffé (now spelled Tefé), Amazonas State, Brazil, the type locality.
teiniagua Named for Teiniaguá, a princess transformed to a witch (a character from a fictional tale entitled ‘Salamanca do Jarau’ popularised in the Rio Grande do Sul State by the writer Simões Lopes Neto, that lives in a cave at the hill ‘Cerro do Jarau’, which is inserted in the area of distribution of the new species; noun in apposition (Scleronema teiniagua).
temmincki In honour of C. Temminck, the Dutch physician.
tenebrosa The specific name of tenebrosa (Phenacorhamdia tenebrosa) meaning dark, referring to darker coloration compared to its presumed congener at the time, Imparfinis piperatus.
tenebrosum The specific epithet “tenebrosum” derives from the Latin noun “tenebrae”, which means “darkness, gloom”, plus “-osum”, a Latin suffix used to form adjectives from nouns. In Brazil, the adjective tenebrous is often used to describe something that is frightening, gloomy, or malevolent. The name alludes to the powerful toxin released by the new species under stress, which kills any fish kept in the same bag/container during transport. An adjective (Hoplisoma tenebrosum).
tengana Presumably local Bengali name for this species in India (Batasio tengana).
tengara From the native 'ting ga rah'.
tenuirostre tenuis, thin; rostris, snout, referring to its thin snout, thinner than congeners Steindachner knew about at the time (Sturisoma tenuirostre).
tenuis Slender or thin.
tenuispinis tenuis, thin; spinis, spine, referring to short and slender dorsal and pectoral-fin spines (Amblyceps tenuispinis).
ternetzi In honour of ichthyologist and naturalist Carl Ternetz (1870-1928), who collected type.
terracanticum Name from Latin 'terra' or earth and 'canticum' for song; dedicated to the Llanos work songs (cantos de vaquería), (Spatuloricaria terracanticum).
tessmani In honour of Tessman the collector.
tetramerus Ancient Greek, meaning "devided in four parts", referring to the body pattern.
thanatos From the Greek thánatos, which means ?death?), the Greek god or personification of death, and the twin brother of Hypnos, the god/personification of sleep.
thayeria In honour of Nathaniel Thayer Jr., who sponsored Louis Agassiz on his expedition to Brazil in 1866.
theodorae Matronym not explained and remained a mystery until 1979, when Peter B. N. Jackson uncovered that the name honours Theodora Jacoba Sleeswijk (née van Bosse, 1874-1953), the niece of Weber’s wife, who accompanied him on his visit to South Africa (Clarias theodorae).
thomasi In honour of H. S. Thomas.
thomsoni Named in the honour of Mr. Kay Thomson, who collected the original specimens in Villeta.
tibicen Latinisation of trompetter, or trompetfisi (trumpeter), Dutch-Surinamese local name for this and other aspredinid catfishes, alluding to the sound they make when taken out of the water (Isaäc J.H. Isbrücker, pers. comm.), (Aspredinichthys tibicen).
tiraquae Of Tiraque, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, type locality (Trichomycterus tiraquae).
titan From the Greek Titan, son or daughter of Uranus and Gaea, representing brute force and large size, masculine (Lajun et al 2010).
tocantinsensis From the Tocantins river basin.
tokiensis –ensis, suffix denoting place: Tokyo, Japan, type locality (Tachysurus tokiensis).
tolima The specific name is a noun in apposition and refers to the princess Yulima who was executed and martyred by the Spanish conquistadores, and to the Department of Tolima, where the type locality is located.
torosus Muscular.
totae Coming from Lago de Tota, Colombia, the only place this catfish, now extinct, was known to occur (Rhizosomichthys totae).
thalassina Of the sea, a marine and brackish-water catfish described from the Red Sea (Netuma thalassina).
thoracatum Armoured.
tigrinum Striped
tigrinus Striped as tiger.
timbira Named for the Timbira indigenous groups who live in the area (lower Tocantins and Mearim river basins in Maranhão, Pará and Tocantins states, Brazil) where this catfish occurs (Pseudobunocephalus timbira).
trachycorystes trachys, rough; corystes, helmeted, referring to rugose cranial shield (Trachycorystes trachycorystes).
transmontanus The speciic name of trans-, over; montanus, mountains, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to its occurrence in the Andean valleys of Colombia and Ecuador (Batrochoglanis transmontanus).
travancoria Named afer the Indian region of Travancore in Kerala.
treitlii Named in honour of Mr.Treitl.
trewavasae In honour of Dr. Ethelwynne Trewavas, at one time Curator of Fishes at the British Museum.
trifasciatus Three banded.
trilineatus Three lined.
trilobatus tri (latin) = three; lobes = lapet, lobe; lobatus (adjective) = with lappets, lobes; the caudal fin of this species has three lobes.
trimaculatus Three spots, one at the base of each lobe of the tail fin, and another at the base of the dorsal fin (Tenellus trimaculatus).
trinitatis Named from the type locality of the island of Trinidad (Ancistrus trinitatis).
triplax tri– (L.), three; pláx, anything flat and broad (e.g., flat land, the ocean surface, but here used to mean plate), referring to three series of abdominal plates (compared with two in known congeners at the time), (Acestridium triplax).
triradiatus Three rays.
trombetensis –ensis, suffix denoting place: Trombetas River basin, above Cachoeira Porteira falls, Brazil, where it appears to be endemic (Harttia trombetensis).
tropeira The specific name tropeira substantive in apposition, is given in honour of drovers who for many years traveled carrying horses and mules for the occurrence of species.
tropicanus Named in reference to the region of northeastern Australia that represents the species range (Tandanus tropicanus).
truncatus Specific name from the Latin truncatus (truncated), in reference to the relatively short head of this species.
tubbi In honour of Mr. J. Allan Tubb.
tuira Named in honor of a Brazilian Indian woman from Mebêngôkre/Kaiapó ethnicity who became a symbol of the resistance against construction of hydroelectric dams on the Rio Xingu.
tukano Named after the Tukano indians, a tribe that lives in the area of the Rio Tiquié.
typica/us Serving as type of genus.
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