Garra arupi, a new cyprinid fish species (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from upper Brahmaputra basin in Arunachal Pradesh, India

Garra dampaensis, a new ray-finned fish species (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from Mizoram, northeastern India

“…Measurements and counts follow Kullander & Fang (2004), and that of ventral to anal fin and vent to anal fin, Menon (1964). Lateral transverse scales rows count and other additional measurements follow Nebeshwar et al (2009).…”

“…Garra dampaensis From Manipur, the neighboring state of Mizoram, India, the following species has been described, namely Garra abhoyai and G. naganensis (Hora, 1921), G. manipurensis (Vishwanath & Sarojnalini, 1988), G. litanensis (Vishwanath, 1993), G. paralissorhynchus (Kosygin & Vishwanath, 1998), G. compressus (Vishwanath & Shanta, 1998), G. elongata (Vishwanath & Kosygin, 2000) and G. nambulica (Vishwanath & Joyshree, 2005 (Vishwanath 1993). Garra abhoyai has been treated as a junior synonym of G. rupecula (Menon, 1964), however, Vishwanath & Linthoingambi (2008) resurrected the species and ruled out the occurrence of G. rupecula in the Chindwin basin of Manipur.…”

“…Similarly, Platycara lissorhynchus was described by McClelland (1842) from Kasyah Mountains, Assam (Bhrahmaputra basin) to possess a head, flat below, arched and thick above; a (1839), and we therefore consider that a thorough revision is essential to depict the detail characters of the species. Menon (1964) grouped Garra species having a dark streak near the free margin of the dorsal fin, W-shaped band on the caudal fin and naked breast and belly in the Lissorhynchus complex. Species which can be put under this group are G. lissorhynchus, G. rupecula, G. abhoyai, G. paralissorhynchus and G. nambulica.…”

“…The genus occurs widely from south China, Borneo and south Asia through Burma (now Myanmar), India, the Middle East, Arabian Peninsula and East Africa to West Africa (Menon 1964). During the last decade, several descriptions (Kottelat 2000; Vishwanath & Kosygin 2000;Gopi 2001;Zhang & Chen 2002;Zhang et al 2002;Kullander & Fang 2004;Vishwanath & Joyshree 2005;Vishwanath & Shanta 2005;Zhang 2005Zhang , 2006Zhou et al 2005;Li et al 2008;Vishwanath & Linthoingambi 2008;Chen et al 2009;Nebeshwar et al 2009) and revisions (Zhang et al 2002;Zhou et al 2005) on Garra species have been made from Asia.…”

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Garra tibetana (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)

“…At present, 20 different species of Garra have been recognized from the Brahmaputra River basin, of which there are four species in China, namely, Garra tibetana, G. dengba, G. motuoensis, G. yajiangensis Gong, Freyhof et al 2018;Gong, Deng et al 2018). These species mainly inhabited in the rocky or turbulent rivers, and its food includes phytodetritus in open water habitats, as well as periphyton in substrate-surface habitats (Nebeshwar et al 2009). Since G. tibetana and Garra kempi Hora 1921 have many similarities in morphological characterization, G. tibetana was misidentified as G. kempi for a long period.…”