Garra kalpangi NEBESHWAR, BAGRA & DAS, 2012
October 20th, 2014 — 11:45am
G. kalpangi is distinguished from other Garra species from the Himalayan foothills by the following combination of characters: two pairs of barbels; a weakly developed proboscis represented by a squarish area anterior to the nostrils; 16 circ…
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Cardamom Garra
October 20th, 2014 — 11:07am
G. hughi is occasionally available in the ornamental trade and may be labelled ‘chocolate algae eater’.
The original diagnosis of this species by Silas states that it can be identified by the following combination of characters: elongate body form; broad head…
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October 20th, 2014 — 10:30am
This species can be distinguished from congeners inhabiting the Red River basin in Yunnan province, China, by the following combination of characters: no barbels; 46-52 lateral line scales; 16 circumpeduncular scales; pharyngeal teeth in 3 rows, 2.4.5-5.4.2; snout rounded, no secondary rostrum, no longitudinal…
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October 20th, 2014 — 9:46am
Prior to its description, G. rotundinasus was considered to represent the congener G. gravleyi, but the latter is now accepted to occur only in the Salween and Manipur river basins. These two are separated from all other Garra species in China and Southeast Asia by possession of a weakly-devel…
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October 19th, 2014 — 8:44pm
Following Rainboth (1996) distinguishing characters for G. fuliginosa include: presence of rostral and maxillary barbels; a well-developed, trilobed rostrum; possession of 10 gill rakers on the lower portion of the first gill arch; no mid-lateral body stripe; 32-34 lateral line scales; body dark with random lighter scales in places.
Kottelat (2001) states that the species can be told apart from other Garra occurring in Laos by a combination of: snout with a secondary rostrum, proboscis about twice as wide…
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October 19th, 2014 — 6:55pm
Native to the Mekong river system in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia, including the Tonlé Sap basin.
Type locality is ‘Kemarat, Thailand’, which corresponds to the Mekoong River in Khemmarat district, Ubon Ratchathani province, northeastern Thailand.
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Garra dampaensis LAIRONUNGA, LAINUNTLUANGA & LAIRAMLIANA, 2013
October 19th, 2014 — 6:34pm
This species can be told apart from Indian congeners by the following combination of characters: no transverse groove or proboscis on the snout; tip of dorsal fin falcate; long axillary scale present at the base of pelvic fin, reaching base of last pelvic fin ray; 27–29 lateral-line scales, 10–11 regularly arranged predorsal scales; W-shaped black band across middle of caudal fin; presence of scales on the abdomen.
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October 19th, 2014 — 4:51pm
Substrates are generally composed of gravel, rocks, boulders or bedrock carpeted with a rich biofilm formed by algae and other micro-organisms.
At a habitat in the Mendawai river basin in central Kalimantan, H. borneensis was collected from a foothill stream running swiftly over a rock and gravel substrate with clear water of pH 6.4.
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October 19th, 2014 — 3:34pm
G. bispinosa can be distinguished from all other congeners in Southeast Asia and China by the following combination of characters: a conspicuous, quadrate, anteriorly-directed proboscis orientated ventrally against the snout and anteriorly adorned with a single, large, uniscupid, acanthoid tubercle on the distal tip of each lobe; snout with a deep groove across its tip to form a transverse lobe; 34-35 lateral…
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October 19th, 2014 — 1:33pm
This species is widely-distributed in the Mekong river system in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam, Salween and Ayeyarwaddy rivers in southern China, Myanmar, and Thailand, plus various smaller basins in Vietnam and China. It has also been recorded from the islands of Hainan and Hong Kong.
Type locality is given as ‘China: sent from Hong Kong’.
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