Garra lautior Banister 1987
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Description
Garra lautior
Common name. Smooth Hadhramaut garra.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Garra in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Dhofar (Oman) by: ○ 34−36 total lateral-line scales / ○ 14−16 circumpeduncular scales / ○ 7½ branched dorsal rays / ○ 11−17 gill rakers on lower limb of first gill arch / ○ chest and belly naked / ○ no tubercles on snout / ○ dorsal hyaline or pale-brown with black spots at bases of branched rays / ○ groove between tip of snout and nostrils shallow or absent. Size up to 120 mm SL.
Distribution. Yemen: Wadi Hadhramaut drainage.
Habitat. Wadis with large seasonal variations in flow.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. EN; appears to be declining within its very small range. Threatened by water abstraction, but threats and distribution poorly known.
Further reading. Krupp 1983 (morphology, as Garra incertae sedis); Banister 1987 (description); Freyhof et al. 2020 (distribution, identification).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Banister
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Garra
- Species
- lautior
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Garra lautior Banister, 1987 sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Krupp, F. 1983. Fishes of Saudi Arabia. Freshwater fishes of Saudi Arabia and adjacent regions of the Arabian Peninsula. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 5: 568-636.
- Banister, K. E. 1987. Two new species of Garra (Teleostei-Cyprinidae) from the Arabian Peninsula. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology v 52 (1): 59-70, pls 1 - 2.
- Freyhof, J. & B. Yogurtcuoglu. 2020. A proposal for a new generic structure of the killifish family Aphaniidae, with the description of Aphaniops teimorii (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Zootaxa 4810: 421-451. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4810.3.2