Garra undetermined
Creators: name: Zamani-Faradonbe, Mazaher
name: Zhang, E.
name: Keivany, Yazdan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Garra
Garra undetermined

description: Key to species of the Garra species known from Iran
1a. Subterranean species, flank and back whitish or pink; eye externally invisible...................................... 2
1b. Epigean species, flank and back brown or grey, usually mottled; eye fully developed................................ 4
2a. Gular disc absent.............................................................................. G. typhlops
2b. Gular disc present..................................................................................... 3
3a. Scales absent; pores on lateral line present..................................................... G. lorestanensis
3b. Few, often isolated scales on flank; no pores along lateral midline.................................... G. tashanensis
4a. Barbels absent................................................................................. G. roseae
4b. Barbels present....................................................................................... 5
5a. One (two short in some populations) pair of barbels.......................................................... 6
5b. Two pairs of well developed barbels....................................................................... 7
6a. Predorsal mid-line, breast and belly naked........................................................ G. nudiventris
6b. Predorsal mid-line, breast and belly fully covered by scales............................................. G. rossica
7a. Usually 8+8 branched caudal-fin rays............................................................... G. persica
7b. Usually 9+8 branched caudal-fin rays...................................................................... 8
8a. Usually 8½ branched dorsal-fin rays....................................................................... 9
8b. Usually 7½ branched dorsal-fin rays...................................................................... 10
9a. 32–37 total lateral line scales; 13-17 circumpeduncular scales................................. G. gymnothorax / G. rufa
9b. 30–33 total lateral line scales; 12-13 circumpeduncular scales.............................................. G. tiam
10a. Usually 2 scales between anus and anal-fin origin........................................................... 11
10b. Usually 3 scales between anus and anal-fin origin........................................................... 12
11a. 17–19 scales along predorsal midline.......................................................... G. amirhosseini
11b. 9–13 scales along predorsal midline............................................................... G. mondica
12a. Posterior margin of scales on chest not embedded in skin........................................... G. hormuzensis
12b. Posterior margin of scales on chest embedded in skin............................................. G. meymehensis
description: Published as part of Zamani-Faradonbe, Mazaher, Zhang, E. & Keivany, Yazdan, 2021, Garra hormuzensis, a new species from the upper Kol River drainage in the Persian Gulf basin (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), pp. 380-394 in Zootaxa 5052 (3) on page 385, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5572153