page_title: Garra
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Garra / Species
caption_attribution_description: Garra makiensis
context_page_description: Garra is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. These fish are one example of the "log suckers", sucker-mouthed barbs and other cyprinids commonly kept in aquaria to keep down algae. The doctor fish of Anatolia and the Middle East belongs in this genus. The majority of the more than 140 species of garras are native to Asia, but about one-fifth of the species are from Africa.
  The genus was established by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in 1822 as a subgenus of Cyprinus; he did not designate a type species. But as no other garras except the newly discovered G. lamta were known to science in 1822, this was designated as the type species by Pieter Bleeker in 1863. The garras and their closest relatives are sometimes placed in a subfamily Garrinae, but this seems hardly warranted. More often, this group is included in the Labeoninae, or together with these in the Cyprininae. In the former case, the garras are members of the labeonine tribe Garrini, in the latter they are in the subtribe Garraina of tribe Labeonini. The genus Discogobio is a close relative.
context_section_description: These are the currently recognized species in this genus:
  
  
   
  Garra abhoyai Hora, 1921
  Garra aethiopica (Pellegrin, 1927)
  Garra allostoma T. R. Roberts, 1990
  Garra alticaputus Arunachalam, Nandagopal & Mayden, 2013 
  Garra amirhosseini Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Coad & Eagderi, 2016 
  Garra annandalei Hora, 1921
  Garra apogon (Norman, 1925)
  Garra arunachalami Johnson & Soranam, 2001
  Garra arunachalensis Nebeshwar &  Vishwanath, 2013 
  Garra arupi Nebeshwar, Vishwanath & D. N. Das, 2009
  Garra barreimiae Fowler & Steinitz, 1956
  Garra bibarbatus (Nguyen, 2001)
  Garra bicornuta Narayan Rao, 1920
  Garra bimaculacauda Thoni, Gurung & Mayden, 2016 
  Garra birostris Nebeshwar &  Vishwanath, 2013 
  Garra bisangulris Chen, Wu, & Xiao, 2010 
  Garra bispinosa E. Zhang, 2005
  Garra blanfordii (Boulenger, 1901)
  Garra borneensis (Vaillant, 1902)
  Garra bourreti (Pellegrin, 1928)
  Garra buettikeri Krupp, 1983
  Garra cambodgiensis (Tirant, 1883) (Cambodian logsucker)
  Garra ceylonensis Bleeker, 1863 (Ceylon logsucker)
  Garra chakpiensis Nebeshwar & Vishwanath, 2015 
  Garra chebera Habteselassie, Mikschi, Ahnelt & Waidbacher, 2010
  Garra compressus Kosygin & Vishwanath, 1998
  Garra congoensis Poll, 1959
  Garra cornigera  Shangningam & Vishwanath, 2015 
  Garra cryptonema (G. H. Cui & Z. Y. Li, 1984) 
  Garra culiciphaga (Pellegrin, 1927) 
  Garra cyclostomata Đ. Y. Mai, 1978
  Garra cyrano Kottelat, 2000
  Garra dampaensis Lalronunga, Lalnuntluanga & Lalramliana, 2013 
  Garra dembecha Getahun & Stiassny, 2007
  Garra dembeensis (Rüppell, 1835) (Cameroon logsucker)
  Garra dulongensis (Chen, Pan, Kong & Yang, 2006)
  Garra dunsirei Banister, 1987
  Garra duobarbis Getahun & Stiassny, 2007
  Garra elegans (Günther, 1868) 
  Garra elongata Vishwanath & Kosygin, 2000 
  Garra emarginata Kurup & Radhakrishnan, 2011 
  Garra ethelwynnae Menon, 1958
  Garra fasciacauda Fowler, 1937
  Garra festai (Tortonese, 1939) 
  Garra fisheri (Fowler, 1937)
  Garra flavatra S. O. Kullander & F. Fang, 2004
  Garra fluviatilis Kangrang, Thoni, Mayden & Beamish, 2016 
  Garra fuliginosa Fowler, 1934
  Garra geba Getahun & Stiassny, 2007
  Garra ghorensis Krupp, 1982
  Garra gotyla (J. E. Gray, 1830)
  Garra gracilis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936)
  Garra gravelyi (Annandale, 1919)
  Garra hainanensis Y. R. Chen & C. Y. Zheng, 1983
  Garra hindii (Boulenger, 1905)
  Garra hughi Silas, 1955
  Garra ignestii (Gianferrari, 1925)
  Garra imbarbatus (Nguyen, 2001)
  Garra imberba Garman, 1912
  Garra imberbis (Vinciguerra, 1890)
  Garra incisorbis L. P. Zheng, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2016 
  Garra jerdoni F. Day, 1867 
  Garra jordanica Hamidan, Geiger & Freyhof, 2014 
  Garra joshuai Silas, 1954
  Garra kalakadensis Rema Devi, 1993
  Garra kalpangi Nebeshwar, Bagra & D. N. Das, 2012 
  Garra kemali (Hankó, 1925) 
  Garra kempi Hora, 1921
  Garra khawbungi Arunachalam, Nandagopal & Mayden, 2014 
  Garra kimini Arunachalam, Nandagopal & Mayden, 2013 
  Garra lamta (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  Garra lancrenonensis Blache & Miton, 1960
  Garra lautior Banister, 1987
  Garra lissorhynchus (McClelland, 1842)
  Garra litanensis Vishwanath, 1993
  Garra longchuanensis Q. Yu, X. Z. Wang, H. Xiong & S. P. He, 2016 
   
  Garra longipinnis Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977
  Garra lorestanensis Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi, 2016 
  Garra magnidiscus Tamang, 2013 
  Garra makiensis (Boulenger, 1904)
  Garra mamshuqa Krupp, 1983
  Garra manipurensis Vishwanath & Sarojnalini, 1988
  Garra mcclellandi (Jerdon, 1849)
  Garra menderesensis (Küçük, Bayçelebi, Güçlü & Gülle, 2015) 
  Garra menoni Rema Devi & T. J. Indra, 1984
  Garra micropulvinus W. Zhou, X. F. Pan & Kottelat, 2005
  Garra mini Rahman, Mollah, Norén & Kullander, 2016
  Garra minimus Arunachalam, Nandagopal & Mayden, 2013 
  Garra mirofrontis X. L. Chu & G. H. Cui, 1987
  Garra mlapparaensis Kurup & Radhakrishnan, 2011 
  Garra mondica Sayyadzadeh, Esmaeili & Freyhof, 2015 
  Garra mullya (Sykes, 1839)
  Garra naganensis Hora, 1921
  Garra nambulica Vishwanath & H. Joyshree, 2005
  Garra namyaensis Shangningam & Vishwanath, 2012 
  Garra nana (Heckel, 1843) 
  Garra nasuta (McClelland, 1838)
  Garra nethravathiensis Arunachalam & Nandagopal, 2014 
  Garra nigricauda Arunachalam, Nandagopal & Mayden
caption: Garra makiensis
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