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SPECIES NAMES PAGE 'W'

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

 

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walkeri In honour of R. B. N. Walker, the collector.
wallacei Named after Alfred Russel Wallace when, starting in 1848, made large collections of plants and animals in the Amazon basin.
wamiensis From the Wami River, Tanzania, Africa.
waandersii Jan Theodore van Bloemen Waanders (1820–1889) was a Captain, then Lieutenant-Colonel, of the Artillery, East Sumatra and an amateur naturalist. He was the son of Hendrik Lodewijk van Bloemen Waanders. He collected the types (Helicophagus waandersii).
waterloti After a personal name.
weberi Named for Claude Weber, from the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Génève, for his contributions to the knowledge of the genus Hypostomus.
weddellii In honour of Weddell.
weitzmani In honour of Dr. Stanley H.Weitzman, the American ichthyologist.
wernekei Patronym honoring David C. Werneke, Collection Manager of Fishes at the Auburn University Museum, for his diligence, camaraderie and humor during three expeditions to the upper Orinoco Basin and for his long service as a Collection Manager at Auburn University.
werneri In honour of F. Werner, the Austrian zoologist.
wilsoni In honour of Wilson.
woleuensis Meaning - ensis, suffix denoting place: Woleu River, Gabon, the type locality (Synodontis woleuensis).
wolfii In honour of Thomas W. Wolfe (also spelled Wolf in same paper), who assisted William C. Morrow in his 1937 collecting expedition to the Ucayali River basin of Peru (Rineloricaria wolfei).
wolverine The specific name is an allusion to the Mustelidae Gulo gulo, also known as wolverine, glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch because of it's blunt stature, strong claws, and ferocity. Name in apposition.
woodi In honour of Mr. Rodney C. Wood, the collector.
woodsi Named for Loren P. Woods.
woosnami In honour of R. B. Woosnam, the collector.
wotroi Dedicated to the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO, short for the Dutch “Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek voor de Tropen,” meaning Scientific Research in the Tropics), (Hoplisoma wotroi).
worthingtoni In honour of Worthington.
wuyjugu The specific epithet refers to the combination of the words Wuy jugu, which is the self-denomination of indigenous people known in Brazil as Munduruku. This ethnic group is part of the Tupi trunk and they are located in different regions and territories in the states of Pará, Amazonas, and Mato Grosso. In the region of the lower Tapajós River, in recent years some communities in the process of their ethnic identity have recognized themselves as Munduruku (Ramos, 2022). A noun in apposittion.
wuyueensis Based on the two rival states Wu and Yue which were bordered by the Qiantang-Jiang in southeast China more than 2000 years ago. The onomatopoeic Chinese sound of this species is “Wu Yue Ni Chang” (Tachysurus wuyueensis).
wyckii In honour of Herman Constantijn Van der Wijck (1815-1889), Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Regent of the Preanger Regencies, Java, Indonesia (type locality), who invited Bleeker to a fishing party in which the river was poisoned with “akar toeba” (a plant whose roots contain the ichthyocide rotenone) and large masses of stunned fishes were ladled from the water [a regency is a rural area, larger than a city; a regent is its leader, similar to a mayor], (Hemibagrus wyckii).
wyckioides –oides, having the form of: referring to close resemblance to Mystus (Hemibagrus) wyckii (Hemibagrus wyckioides).
wynaadensis From streams in in Wynaad, India. Wynaad is the type collection and "ensis" meaning from (Wynaad).
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