Garra dunsirei Banister 1987
Authors/Creators
- 1. Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
- 2. Conservation Monitoring Centre, The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, Amman, Jordan
Description
14. Garra dunsirei Banister, 1987 ―Tawi Atair Garra ―Endemic
Taxonomy. Original description: Garra dunsirei Banister, 1987:59, figs. 1, 2a, 3-5 [from a Sinkhole, Tawi Atair [or Attair], 17°06’N, 54°34’E, in the Jabal Qara (Jabal Samhan) mountains, Dhofar, Oman; Holotype: BMNH 1984.3.6.571]. Synonyms: Garra smartae Krupp & Budd, 2009; Garra sindhae Lyon, Geiger & Freyhof, 2016.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Oman in original description by Banister (1987); confirmed by Lyon et al. (2016); Freyhof et al. (2020), Esmaeili et al. (2022) and Sayyadzadeh et al. (2023).
General distribution. Middle East: Dhofar Province (Oman). Habitat: freshwater.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Oman: Sinkhole at Tawi Attair in the Jabal Qara (Jabal Samhan) mountains, Wadi Andhur, Wadi Hadhabram, and Wadi Laggashalyon (Sayyadzadeh et al. 2023).
Economic importance. No commercial importance.
Conservation. Endangered (EN).
Remarks. Garra species from the Dhofar region in Oman were reviewed by Sayyadzadeh et al. (2023) based on integrated morphological and molecular (COI) data of newly collected fishes from the type localities of G. sindhae and G. smartae, and a new population from Wadi Laggashalyon. They found no diagnostic character to distinguish the two species and the Laggashalyon population as distinct taxa. In addition, the phylogenetic tree placed the sequenced Omani Garra fishes into nine groups with K2P sequence divergence of 0.8% (G. smartae and G. smartae _Laggasaylon); 1.2% (G. smartae and G. sindhae), and 14.5% (G. shamal and G. dunsirei) in their COI barcode region. A molecular species delimitation approach using PTP, also detected one entity for Garra species from the Dhofar region (G. dunsirei, G. sindhae and both populations of G. smartae), which is consistent with our morphological data. Therefore, based on absence of diagnostic characters, low genetic distance, and molecular species delimitation approach, Sayyadzadeh et al. (2023) treated G. sindhae and G. smartae as junior synonyms of G. dunsirei.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Material sample ID
- 1984.3.6.571
- Scientific name authorship
- Banister
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Garra
- Species
- dunsirei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Garra dunsirei Banister, 1987 sec. Esmaeili & Hamidan, 2023
References
- Banister, K. E. (1987) Two new species of Garra (Teleostei-Cyprinidae) from the Arabian Peninsula. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 52 (1), 59 - 70. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 18301
- Krupp, F. & Budd, K. (2009) A new species of the genus Garra (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Oman. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 15 (2), 117 - 120.
- Lyon, R. G., Geiger. M. F. & Freyhof, J. (2016) Garra sindhi, a new species from the Jebel Samhan Nature Reserve in Oman (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 4154 (1), 79 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4154.1.5
- Freyhof, J., Feulner, G. R., Hamidan, N. A. & Krupp, F. (2020) Freshwater fishes Fishes of the Arabian Peninsula. Motivate Media Group, Dubia, 272 pp.
- Esmaeili, H. R., Jufaili, S. A., Masoumi, A. H. & Zarei, F. (2022) Ichthyodiversity in southeastern Arabian Peninsula: Annotated checklist, taxonomy, short description and distribution of Inland fishes of Oman. Zootaxa, 5134 (4), 451 - 503. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5134.4.1
- Sayyadzadeh, S., Al Jufaili, S. M. & Esmaeili, H. R. (2023) Species diversity deflation: Insight into taxonomic validity of Garra species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Dhofar Region in the Arabian Peninsula using an integrated morpho-molecular approach. Zootaxa, 5230 (3), 333 - 350. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5230.3.4