Garra

Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Freyhof, Jörg, 2015, Garra mondica, a new species from the Mond River drainage with remarks on the genus Garra from the Persian Gulf basin in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), Zootaxa 4048 (1), pp. 75-89 : 78

Key to species of Garra in the Persian Gulf basin

1a Subterranean species, body whitish or pink; eye absent........................................................ 2

1b Epigean species, body brown or grey, usually mottled; eye fully developed....................................... 3

2a Mental disc absent; body naked................................................................. G. typhlops

2a Mental disc present; body fully covered by scales or scales restricted to lateral midline.................... G. widdowsoni

3a One pair of barbels.......................................................................... G. variabilis

3b Two pairs of barbels................................................................................... 4

4a Usually 8+8 branched caudal-fin rays............................................................... G. persica

4b Usually 9+8 branched caudal-fin rays...................................................................... 5

5a Breast, anterior belly and mid-dorsal area in front of dorsal-fin origin naked, usually 7½ branched dorsal-fin rays G. mondica

5b Mid-dorsal area in front of dorsal-fin origin always covered by scales; breast and belly usually covered by scales, naked in few populations; usually 8½ branched dorsal-fin rays....................................................... G. rufa