Pollimyrus:
Dedicated to Dr. Max Poll (1908-1991), professor at the University of Brussels, head of Dept. of Zoology of the Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale – Koninklijke Museum voor Midden-Afrika (MRAC), Tervuren, Belgium.
-myrus: from name of order, see genus Mormyrus. (J. J. Gosse, G. G. Teugels, in lit.)