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| vacha | Local Gangetic name for ailiid catfishes in India, including this one (Eutropiichthys vacha). |
| vachellii | In honour of Rev. George Harvey Vachell (1799-1839), who “presented” type (Tachysurus vachellii). |
| vandellia | After M. Vandelli. |
| vanderwaali | Named after the collector of the holotype, Ben van der Waal, in recognition of his donations of fish collections from northern Namibina rivers to the J.L.B. Smith Institute and the Albany Museum. |
| valenciennis | –is, genitive singular of: patronym not identified but clearly in honour of Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865), co-author of the 22-volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons (1828-1850), a basic reference for ichthyologists of the time (Parapimelodus valenciennis). |
| vari | The species name varii honours the ichthyologist Richard P. Vari (1949–2016) for his outstanding contributions to the systematics of Neotropical fishes (Rhyacoglanis varii). |
| variabile/is | Variable. |
| variegatus | Variable; variously coloured. |
| variola | Named from the Latin variola, meaning smallpox, spotted, in allusion to the dark dots that cover all dorsal and ventral body surfaces. A noun in apposition. |
| varius | Referring to the highly variable number of serrae on posterior edge of pectoral spine (Akysis varius). |
| velatus | Latin for concealed, referring to its being the first species of Encheloclarias found on Sumatra after 150 years of ichthyological exploration, and to its secretive nature. |
| velifer | From the Latin adjective velifer, meaning sail bearing (Latin velum = sail and fero = to bear). The name refers to the relatively elongate first dorsal-fin ray of this species, a diagnostic character. |
| velites | Lat. velites, plural of veles, light armed troops of the Roman army, which usually opened the fighting hurling javelins, retreating among the ranks of heavy infantry as the struggle advanced. An allusion to the relatively delicate complexion of the fish. |
| velhomonge | The specific epithet, “velhomonge”, is a reference to the Parnaíba River, commonly known as ‘Velho Monge’ (Old Monk, in English). One of the versions on the origin of this name portrays that a poet called Costa e Silva gave the river the nickname “Velho Monge” because, when seen from the city of Amarante, the confluence of Canindé River with Parnaíba River forms a landscape that, in profile, reminds the silhouette of a monk and whose foam suggests its long beard. A noun in apposition. |
| venezuelae/us | From Venezuela. |
| venosus | veiny, referring to vein-like latero-sensory canals (Arius venosus). |
| verai | In honour of agronomist Jorge Augusto Vera Mantilla, for his help in capturing the type specimens (Astroblepus verai). |
| vermiculatus | Forming a vermiculate pattern. |
| verrucosus | Covered with verrucae, or warts, the skin “covered everywhere with very small granules or tubercles”. |
| vespa | Latin word for Wasp, due to the colour markings. |
| vetula | According to Valenciennes (1840), Latin cognate of vieille, old woman, from its local common name, vielle à longue queue (“long-tailed old woman”), referring to its filamentous caudal-fin ray; vieille (velha in Portuguese, vieja in Spanish) is a name it shares with several loricariid, doradid and callichthyid catfishes (e.g., Loricariichthys anus) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, allusion not explained nor evident (Paraloricaria vetula). |
| victoriae | From Lake Victoria, East Africa. |
| vigilis | Watchful, referring to its relatively large eyes (Microsynodontis vigilis). |
| villasboas | The specific name, villasboas, (Hartia villasboas) is a patronym that honours the Orlando, Claudio and Leonardo Villas Boas brothers, three frontiersmen that led the Expedição Roncador-Xingu during the years of 1943 to 1949, with the mission to explore a wide and unknown territory of the Amazonian regions of Brazil. In 1949, the expedition reached the tablelands of the Serra do Cachimbo. One of the most important results of this expedition was the establishment of the Parque Indígena do Xingu in 1961, the first huge indigenous area in all South America. The area of the park is 26.420 km2 in the northern of Mato Grosso State and nowadays protects 14 indigenous ethnicities. A noun in apposition. |
| violaceus | The specific epithet violaceus is a Latin word and means violet-colored, in reference to the general violet body coloration of the species. |
| virescens | Greenish. |
| virgatus/ulatus | Striped. |
| virginiae | This Corydoras was named in honour of Adolfo Schwartz's wife, Virginia. |
| viridescens | From the Latin viridis, meaning green, and refering to the colour of the fish. |
| viriosus | This name is used in reference to the relatively deep, robust body and long fin spines of this species when compared to many congeners. |
| vitreolus | Means 'of glass’, in reference to the transparent appearance of this species. |
| vittata/um/us | Banded, striped. |
| vogti | The specific epithet of vogti is in honour of monsignor Franz Xaver Vogt (1870-1943), German Catholic Missionary, Bagamoyo, German East Africa (now Tanzania), who sent type to the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris) (Atopochilus vogti). |
| voltae | From the Volta River in Africa. |
| votouro | Named for the Votouro Indian Reserve, situated on Benjamin Constant, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, type locality (Hemiancistrus votouro). |
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