Garra gallagheri Krupp, 1988

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, Zootaxa 5330 (2), pp. 201-226 : 209-210

15. Garra gallagheri Krupp, 1988 ―Black Garra― Endemic

Taxonomy. Original description: Garra barreimiae gallagheri Krupp (1988) :402, fig. 1 [Wadi Bani Khalid north of Muqal, 22°40’N, 59°05’E, Oman; Holotype: SMF 17262 ]. Synonyms: None .

Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Oman in original description by Krupp (1988); confirmed by Lyon et al. (2016); Freyhof et al. (2020), Kirchner et al. (2020), Esmaeili et al. (2022), and Sayyadzadeh et al. (2023).

General distribution. Middle East: Wadi Bani Khalid and falaj irrigation systems downstream ( Oman endemic). Habitat: freshwater.

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Oman: Wadi Bani Khalid and falaj irrigation systems downstream, Falaj in Bani Bu Ali, Sur Bridg Sur Al Sharqiya Governorate and Wadi Bani Khalid.

Remarks. Krupp distinguished G. b. gallagheri from G. b. barreimiae by presence of 8 dorsal-fin rays (vs. 7). It is likely that Krupp counted the posterior pair of fin rays based on one pterygophore as two rays, thus 8 rays as counted by Krupp (1988) can be treated as 7½ rays. Individuals of G. gallagheri from its type locality had 7½ branched dorsal-fin rays (see Kirchner et al. 2020).

Economic importance. No commercial importance.

Conservation. Endangered (EN).