Garra orientalis (Nichols)

Chan, Jeffery C. F., Tsang, Alphonse H. F., Yau, Sze-man, Hui, Tommy C. H., Lau, Anthony, Tan, Heok Hui, Low, Bi Wei, Dudgeon, David & Liew, Jia Huan, 2023, The non-native freshwater fishes of Hong Kong: diversity, distributions, and origins, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71, pp. 128-168 : 166

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26107/RBZ-2023-0012

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7816051

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C5879E-FF98-C070-BB74-4F50C08FA1CB

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Felipe

scientific name

Garra orientalis (Nichols)
status

 

Garra orientalis (Nichols) View in CoL View at ENA

Distribution. Tai Lam Chung Reservoir, Plover Cove Reservoir (A.C. Lam, pers. comm., 2021).

Native range. Asia (presumably East Asia).

Remarks. Native riverine populations of this species have not been recorded again since Chan (2001) and are suspected to be extirpated as their local habitat has been channelised. It is unlikely this species naturally occurred in feeder streams of the two reservoirs as it usually inhabits tributaries of large rivers (Pan et al., 1991), which are not present within the catchments of Tai Lam Chung and Plover Cove. The populations in the two reservoirs likely arrived through water transfer from mainland China since this species naturally occurs in the Dongjiang river system (Guangdong and Beijiang rivers) (Pan et al., 1991).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

Genus

Garra

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