Garra sharq Kirchner, Kruckenhauser, Pichler, Borkenhagen & Freyhof, 2020

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Jufaili, Saud Al, Masoumi, Amir Hassan & Zarei, Fatah, 2022, Ichthyodiversity in southeastern Arabian Peninsula: Annotated checklist taxonomy, short description and distribution of Inland fishes of Oman, Zootaxa 5134 (4), pp. 451-503 : 472-473

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:47796EB6-B7FE-4442-AED3-E664DCC9A9B4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6544746

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FBBC4B-0941-B21C-EC95-FD2622574830

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Garra sharq Kirchner, Kruckenhauser, Pichler, Borkenhagen & Freyhof, 2020
status

 

8. Garra sharq Kirchner, Kruckenhauser, Pichler, Borkenhagen & Freyhof, 2020 , Endemic

Fig. 24 View FIGURE 24

Etymology: Garra : named based on a vernacular Indian name, a fish living in mud; sharq : the Arabic word for east, for its distribution range in north-eastern Oman.

Common name: Dayqah Garra, Sharq Garra .

Taxonomy: Garra sharq was described by Kirchner [S.], Kruckenhauser [L.], Pichler [A.], Borkenhagen [K.] & Freyhof [J.] 2020:538, figs. 13-16 [Zootaxa 4751 (no. 3)] Qifayfah, Oman, 22.915°N, 58.425°E. Holotype GoogleMaps : NMW-100002. Paratypes: FSJF, NMW . Plus additional non-type material .

Short description: Garra sharq is differentiated from the other species of Garra in the Hajar Mountains e.g., G. barreimiae by absence of orange spot at the upper opercle (vs. presence) and a white dorsal fin tip (vs. presence), and by having 10–14 gill rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch (vs. 15–18). It is distinguished from G. gallagheri and G. longipinnis by having a strongly mottled flank pattern (vs. almost plain or with slight mottling) and individual or series of orange midlateral flank scales (vs. no orange scales). Garra sharq is distinguished from G. shamal by absence of a white dorsal-fin tip (vs. presence), orange scales on the flank usually present (vs. usually absent) and having black dorsal-fin membranes (vs. hyaline, brown, grey, often hyaline in proximal and black on distal portion).

Distribution: Wadi Dayqah basin north-eastern; Ibra, Al Sharqiya Governorate; Qufaifa, Al Sharqiya Governorate; Al Hajr, Ibri, Al Dhahira Governorate, Oman ( Fig. 25 View FIGURE 25 ).

Examined material: ZM-CBSU: O009. Gq 101, 10, Oman: Wadi Arabieen, 23°04’47”N, 59°02’32”E, H. R Esmaeili, S.M. Al-Jufaili, A. H Masoumi, Sep. 2021 GoogleMaps . ZM-CBSU: O011. Gq 111, 8, Oman: Qufaifa, 22°55’30”N, 58°25’30”E, S.M. Al-Jufaili, Nov. 2020 GoogleMaps .

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

Genus

Garra

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF