Published November 12, 2025 | Version v1
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Garra klatti

Description

Garra klatti

Common name. Anatolian golden barb.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Garra in Central Anatolia, Mediterranean, and Dead Sea basins by: ○ no barbels / ○ gular disc incomplete / ○ 15−17 gill rakers / ○ many papillae on mental pad / ○ 36–41+1–2 scales in lateral series / ○ lateral line incomplete, with 6−32 pored scales. Size up to 75 mm SL.

Distribution. Türkiye: Lake Eğirdir basin, Lake Işıklı basin in upper Büyük Menderes drainage, Lake Gölcük (Isparta), and upper Köprüçay drainage.

Habitat. Springs, lakes, and slow-flowing streams.

Biology. Lives up to 4 years. Spawns in second year.

Conservation status. VU; extirpated from Gölcük and Eğirdir basins due to invasion of non-native species. Other populations in decline.

Remarks. Earlier placed in Hemigrammocapoeta or Crossocheilus and considered as a synonym of G. kemali by some authors. Hemigrammocapoeta menderesensis is a synonym.

Further reading. Kosswig 1950 (description); Karaman 1971 (morphology); Sarı et al. 2008 (biology); Küçük et al. 2009b (conservation); Geiger et al. 2014 (molecular phylogeny, placement in Garra); Hamidan et al. 2014 (molecular phylogeny); Behrens-Chapuis et al. 2015 (molecular phylogeny); Küçük et al. 2015 (morphology, in Hemigrammocapoeta).

Notes

Published as part of Freyhof, Jörg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash & Kaya, Cüneyt, 2025, Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia, GmbH, Berlin / Boston :De Gruyter on page 198, DOI: 10.1515/9783111677811, http://zenodo.org/record/17881367

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References

  • Kosswig, C. 1950. Die Gattung Tylognathus in Vorderasien. Erganzungsband " Neue Ergebnisse und Probleme der Zoologie ", Festschrift Berthold Klatt. Zoologischer Anzeiger 145: 406-415.
  • Karaman, M. S. 1971. Susswasserfische der Turkei. 8. Teil. Revision der Barben Europas, Vorderasiens und Nordafrikas. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 67: 175-254.
  • Sari, H. M., A. Ilhan & S. Balik. 2008. Some biological characteristics of Hemigrammocapoeta kemali (Hanko, 1924) in Isikli Lake (Denizli-Turkey). Journal of Applied Ichthyology 24: 88-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2007.01040.x
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  • Behrens-Chapuis, S., F. Herder, H. R. Esmaeili, J. Freyhof, N. A. Hamidan, M. Ozulug, R. Sanda & M. F. Geiger. 2015. Adding nuclear rhodopsin data where mitochondrial COI indicates discrepancies - can this marker help to explain conflicts in cyprinids? DNA Barcodes 3: 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1515/dna-2015-0020
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