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| 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). |
| 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. |
| waterloti | In honour of Georges Waterlot (1877–1939), who collected specimens for the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris) in French West Africa and Madagascar, including holotype of this catfish (Synodontis waterloti). |
| watwata | Creole name (also spelled watawata) for this species in Guyana (Hypostomus watwata). |
| 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 British physician-botanist Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877), who presented holotype (a dried skin) and a drawing of it (Anadoras wedellii). |
| 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. |
| wertheimeri | Patronym not identified, in honour of either Louis Wertheimer of the Thayer Expedition to Brazil (1865–1866), or Achilles Wertheimer, who died on the expedition due to a snakebite (Pogonopoma wertheimeri). |
| westermanni | Patronym not identified, probably in honour of Lütken’s fellow Dutchman Gerardus Frederick Westermann (1807–1890), who helped found the Amsterdam Zoo in 1838 (Bergiaria westermanni). |
| wilderi | In honour of American zoologist Burt Green Wilder (1841–1925), Cornell University, who sent the collection made by C. F. Hartt in Brazil to Carl H. Eigenmann for identification (and then transmitted to Kindle for final determination), (Hassar wilderi). |
| 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. |
| wrightiana | –ana (L.), belonging to: Scottish-Canadian zoologist Robert Ramsay (misspelled Ramsey by the authors) Wright (1852–1933), “who has contributed more than any one else” to the knowledge of the anatomy of American catfishes (Oxyropsis wrightiana) |
| 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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