''Garra'' is a

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in the

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Cyprinidae Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barbs and barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family, and t ...

. These fish are one example of the "

log sucker ''Garra'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae. These fish are one example of the "log suckers", Suckermouth, sucker-mouthed Barb (fish), barbs and other cyprinids commonly kept in Aquarium, aquaria to keep down algae. T ...

s", sucker-mouthed barbs and other cyprinids commonly kept in aquaria to keep down

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. The

doctor fish The red garra (''Garra rufa''), also known as the doctor fish or nibble fish, is a species of cyprinid that is native to a wide range of freshwater habitats in subtropical parts of Western Asia. This small fish typically is up to about in tota ...

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and the Middle East belongs in this genus. The majority of the more than 160

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of garras are native to

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, but about one-fifth of the species are from

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(

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and

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, but by far the highest

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). The genus was established by

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in 1822 as a

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of ''

Cyprinus ''Cyprinus'' is the genus of typical carps in family Cyprinidae. Most species in the genus are of East Asia origin with only the common carp (''C. carpio'') in Western Asia and Europe; this invasive species has also been Introduced species, intr ...

'' (which at that time was a " basket genus" for

carp The term carp (: carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family (biology), family Cyprinidae, a very large clade of ray-finned fish mostly native to Eurasia. While carp are prized game fish, quarries and a ...

-like cyprinids); though it didn't lead to an act of him to designate a

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

by the time. However, 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 Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, Ichthyology, ichthyologist, and Herpetology, herpetologist. He was famous for the ''Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises'', his monumental work on ...

in 1863. The garras and their closest relatives are sometimes placed in a

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...

Garrinae, but this seems hardly warranted. More often, this group is included in the

Labeoninae Labeoninae is a doubtfully distinct subfamily of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. They inhabit fresh water and the largest species richness is in the region around southern China, but there are also species else ...

, or together with these in the Cyprininae. In the former case, the garras are members of the labeonine

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Garrini Labeoninae is a doubtfully distinct subfamily of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. They inhabit fresh water and the largest species richness is in the region around southern China, but there are also species else ...

, in the latter they are in the

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Garraina of tribe Labeonini. The genus ''

Discogobio ''Discogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that are found in eastern Asia. So far the 16 species have only been identified from China (11 species) and Vietnam (5 species) wherein each species is Endemism, endemic to the country in which it is fou ...

'' is a close relative.

Description and ecology

These species are slim

cyprinid Cyprinidae is a Family (biology), family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barb (fish), barbs and barbel (fish), barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the ...

s with a flat belly and a sucking mouth; their shape indicates that they are at least in tendency

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. They are distinguished from other cyprinids by a combination of features: As in their closest relatives, their lower lip is expanded at its posterior rim to form a round or oval sucking pad, the vomero-palatine organ is much reduced or completely lost, the

pectoral fin Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish aquatic locomotion, swim. Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct connection with the vertebral column ...

s have at least the first two rays enlarged and usually unbranched, the supraethmoid is wider than long when seen from above, and the

cleithrum The cleithrum (: cleithra) is a membrane bone which first appears as part of the skeleton in primitive Osteichthyes, bony fish, where it runs vertically along the scapula. Its name is derived from Greek κλειθρον = "key (lock)", by analogy ...

is narrow and elongated to the front. From other Garrini (or Garraina), the genus ''Garra'' can be distinguished as follows: their

pharyngeal teeth Pharyngeal teeth are teeth in the pharyngeal arch of the throat of cyprinids, suckers, and a number of other fish species otherwise lacking teeth.dorsal fin A dorsal fin is a fin on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates. Dorsal fins have evolved independently several times through convergent evolution adapting to marine environments, so the fins are not all homologous. They are found ...

has 10-11 rays and starts slightly

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to the

pelvic fin Pelvic fins or ventral fins are paired fins located on the ventral (belly) surface of fish, and are the lower of the only two sets of paired fins (the other being the laterally positioned pectoral fins). The pelvic fins are homologous to the hi ...

s, while the

anal fin Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim. Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct connection with the back bone and are supported o ...

starts well behind the pelvic fins and has 8-9 rays. As far as is known, the

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of garras is 2n = 50. Garras are not or barely noticeably

sexually dimorphic Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different Morphology (biology), morphological characteristics, including characteristics not directly involved in reproduction. The condition occurs in most dioecy, di ...

and generally cryptically coloured

benthic The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "the depths". ...

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...

fish. Six species in the genus ('' G. andruzzii'', '' G. dunsirei'', '' G. lorestanensis'', '' G. tashanensis'', '' G. typhlops'' and some populations of '' G. barreimiae'') are cave-adapted, lacking

pigmentation A pigment is a powder used to add or alter color or change visual appearance. Pigments are completely or nearly insoluble and chemically unreactive in water or another medium; in contrast, dyes are colored substances which are soluble or go in ...

and/or eyes. Garras are

omnivorous An omnivore () is an animal that regularly consumes significant quantities of both plant and animal matter. Obtaining energy and nutrients from plant and animal matter, omnivores digest carbohydrates, protein, fat, and fiber, and metabolize ...

, eating

alga Algae ( , ; : alga ) is an informal term for any organisms of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not plants, and includes species from multiple distinct clades. Such organisms range from unicellular microalgae, suc ...

plankton Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that drift in Hydrosphere, water (or atmosphere, air) but are unable to actively propel themselves against ocean current, currents (or wind). The individual organisms constituting plankton are ca ...

and small

invertebrate Invertebrates are animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''spine'' or ''backbone''), which evolved from the notochord. It is a paraphyletic grouping including all animals excluding the chordata, chordate s ...

s that they suck off

substrate Substrate may refer to: Physical layers *Substrate (biology), the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the surface or medium on which an organism grows or is attached ** Substrate (aquatic environment), the earthy material that exi ...

like rocks or logs. The food is scraped off with the sharp

keratinized Keratin () is one of a family of structural fibrous proteins also known as ''scleroproteins''. It is the key structural material making up scales, hair, nails, feathers, horns, claws, hooves, and the outer layer of skin in vertebrates. Kera ...

borders of the

jaw The jaws are a pair of opposable articulated structures at the entrance of the mouth, typically used for grasping and manipulating food. The term ''jaws'' is also broadly applied to the whole of the structures constituting the vault of the mouth ...

s and ingested via

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, created by contracting and relaxing the buccopharynx. As typical for

Cypriniformes Cypriniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, which includes many families and genera of cyprinid ( carps and their kin) fish, such as barbs, loaches, botias, and minnows (among others). Cypriniformes is an "order-within-an-order", placed ...

, the garras lack a

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entirely, their

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leading directly to the

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of the

intestine The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The tract is the largest of the body's systems, after the cardiovascular system. T ...

. Different ''Garra''

eat animal and vegetable matter in different proportions, which can – as typical for

vertebrate Vertebrates () are animals with a vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain. The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebra ...

s – usually be recognized by the length of their intestine compared to related species: more

herbivorous A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically evolved to feed on plants, especially upon vascular tissues such as foliage, fruits or seeds, as the main component of its diet. These more broadly also encompass animals that eat n ...

species have a longer intestine. Indeed, intestinal length in this genus is remarkably constant within species and varies a lot between species, meaning that it is useful to distinguish species and that dietary shifts have played a significant role in the

evolution Evolution is the change in the heritable Phenotypic trait, characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, re ...

of garras. When the females are ready to

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, they are markedly plump and swollen; the ripe

roe Roe, ( ) or hard roe, is the fully ripe internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses, of fish and certain marine animals such as shrimp, scallop, sea urchins and squid. As a seafood, roe is used both as a cooking, c ...

may fill almost four-fifths of their

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. The

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s of reproductive males are large too. The average ''Garra'' egg is 1.77 mm in

diameter In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle. It can also be defined as the longest Chord (geometry), chord of the circle. Both definitions a ...

and a

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contains several hundred eggs – up to a thousand or so in large females. The breeding behaviour is generally not well known and breeding is not often achieved in the

aquarium An aquarium (: aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed. fishkeeping, Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aquati ...

; presumably, like many of their relatives they

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upstream or (if they otherwise inhabit lakes) into the rivers to spawn.

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus: Garra blanfordii

* '' Garra abhoyai'' Hora, 1921 * '' Garra aethiopica'' ( Pellegrin, 1927) * '' Garra allostoma'' T. R. Roberts, 1990 * '' Garra alticaputus'' Arunachalam, Nandagopal & Mayden, 2013 * '' Garra alticauda'' L. Cao, Nyingi,

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, 2023 * '' Garra amirhosseini'' Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Coad & Eagderi, 2016 * ''

Garra andruzzii ''Garra andruzzii'', a species of cyprinid fish, formerly the only species of the genus ''Phreatichthys'', and is endemic to Somalia. This cave-adapted fish is whitish (not pigmented) and blind. It has no scales. It is considered to have evolv ...

'' ( Vinciguerra, 1924) (Somalian cavefish) * '' Garra annandalei'' Hora, 1921 * '' Garra apogon'' ( Norman, 1925) * '' Garra arunachalami'' J. J. Johnson & R. Soranam, 2001 * '' Garra arunachalensis'' Nebeshwar & Vishwanath, 2013 * '' Garra arupi'' Nebeshwar, Vishwanath & D. N. Das, 2009 * '' Garra barreimiae'' Fowler & Steinitz, 1956 * '' Garra bicornuta'' Narayan Rao, 1920 * ''

Garra biloborostris ''Garra biloborostris'' is a species of fish in the genus ''Garra''. The fish is found in Brahmaputra River, Assam's Brahmaputra tributaries. References

Fish described in 2017 Taxa named by Waikhom Vishwanath Garra, biloborostris {{gar ...

'' Roni & Vishwanath, 2017 * '' Garra bimaculacauda'' Thoni,

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& Mayden, 2016 * '' Garra binduensis'' U. Das, Kosygin & Panigrahi, 2016 * '' Garra birostris'' Nebeshwar & Vishwanath, 2013 * '' Garra bisangularis'' Z. M. Chen, X. Y. Wu, & H. Xiao, 2010 * '' Garra bispinosa''

, 2005 * '' Garra blanfordii'' ( Boulenger, 1901) * '' Garra borneensis'' ( Vaillant, 1902) * '' Garra bourreti'' ( Pellegrin, 1928) * '' Garra buettikeri''

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, 1983 * ''

Garra caudomaculata The Antakya minnow or Orontes golden barb, (''Garra caudomaculata'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Garra ''Garra'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae. These fish are one example of the "log suckers" ...

'' ( Battalgil, 1942) (Antakya minnow) * '' Garra centrala'' V. H. Nguyễn, T.H.N. Vũ & T.D.P. Nguyễn, 2015 * '' Garra ceylonensis'' Bleeker, 1863 (Ceylon logsucker) * '' Garra chakpiensis'' Nebeshwar & Vishwanath, 2015 * '' Garra chathensis'' Ezung, Shangningam & Pankaj, 2020 * '' Garra chaudhurii'' Hora, 1921 * '' Garra chebera'' Habteselassie, Mikschi, Ahnelt & Waidbacher, 2010 * '' Garra chindwinensis'' Premananda, Kosygin, Saidullah, 2017 * '' Garra chingaiensis'' Abonmai, Linthoingambi, Ngangbam, Thoidingjam & K. R. Singh, 2023 * '' Garra chivaensis'' Moyon & L. Arunkumar, 2020 * ''

Garra clavirostris ''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 belo ...

'' Roni, Sarbojit & Vishwanath, 2017 * ''

Garra compressa ''Garra compressa'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Garra'' which occurs only in Manipur Manipur () is a state in northeastern India with Imphal as its capital. It borders the Indian states of Assam to the west, Mizora ...

'' Kosygin & Vishwanath, 1998 * '' Garra congoensis''

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, 1959 * '' Garra cornigera'' Shangningam & Vishwanath, 2015 * '' Garra culiciphaga'' (Pellegrin, 1927) (Redstripe barb) * '' Garra cyclostomata'' Đ. Y. Mai, 1978 * '' Garra cyrano'' Kottelat, 2000 * '' Garra dampaensis'' Lalronunga, Lalnuntluanga & Lalramliana, 2013 * '' Garra deccanensis'' Jadhav, Karuthapandi, Shangningam, Jaiswal & Shankar, 2022 * '' Garra dembecha'' Getahun & Stiassny, 2007 * '' Garra dembeensis'' ( Rüppell, 1835) (Dembea stone lapper) * '' Garra dengba'' S.-Q. Deng, L. Cao & E. Zhang, 2018 * '' Garra dohjei'' Marngar, Mawlong & Lokeshwor, 2024 * '' Garra dulongensis'' ( Chen, X. F. Pan, X. Hong & J. X. Yang, 2006) * '' Garra dunsirei'' Banister, 1987 * '' Garra duobarbis'' Getahun & Stiassny, 2007 * '' Garra elegans'' ( Günther, 1868) * '' Garra elongata'' Vishwanath & Kosygin, 2000 * '' Garra emarginata'' Kurup &

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, 2011 * '' Garra ethelwynnae'' Menon, 1958 * '' Garra festai'' ( Tortonese, 1939) * '' Garra flavatra'' S. O. Kullander & F. Fang, 2004 * '' Garra fluviatilis'' Kangrang, Thoni, Mayden & Beamish, 2016 * '' Garra fuliginosa'' Fowler, 1934 * '' Garra gallagheri'' Krupp, 1988 (Black Garra) * '' Garra geba'' Getahun & Stiassny, 2007 * '' Garra ghorensis'' Krupp, 1982 * '' Garra gotyla'' ( J. E. Gray, 1830) (Sucker head) * '' Garra gracilis'' (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936) * '' Garra gravelyi'' ( Annandale, 1919) * '' Garra gymnothorax''

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, 1949 (Chest scaleless garra) * ''

Garra hexagonarostris ''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 belo ...

'' Nebeshwar, Rameshori & Prabina, 2024 * '' Garra hindii'' (Boulenger, 1905) * ''

Garra hormuzensis ''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 belo ...

'' Zamani-Faradonbe, E. Zhang & Keivany, 2021 * '' Garra hughi''

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, 1955 * '' Garra ignestii'' ( Gianferrari, 1925) * '' Garra imberbis'' (Vinciguerra, 1890) * '' Garra irangensis'' Premananda, 2023 * '' Garra jaldhakaensis'' Kosygin, Shangningam,

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& U. Das, 2021 * '' Garra jamila'' Moritz, Straube &

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, 2019 * ''

Garra jenkinsonianum The mullya garra (''Garra mullya'') or sucker fish is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Garra''. It is found in streams and rivers throughout India except for Assam and the Himalayas. Reports of the species from Nepal have not been ver ...

'' Hora, 1921 * '' 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 kangrae'' Prashad, 1919 * '' Garra kemali'' ( Hankó, 1925) (Eregil minnow) * '' Garra kempi'' Hora, 1921 * '' Garra khawbungi'' Arunachalam, Nandagopal & Mayden, 2014 * '' Garra kimini'' Arunachalam, Nandagopal & Mayden, 2014 * '' Garra klatti'' ( Kosswig, 1950) * ''

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'' Nebeshwar & Vishwanath, 2017 * '' Garra laishrami'' Surachita,

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Garra lamta ''Garra lamta'' is a species of cyprinid in the genus ''Garra ''Garra'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae. These fish are one example of the "log suckers", Suckermouth, sucker-mouthed Barb (fish), barbs and other c ...

'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) * '' Garra lancrenonensis'' Blache & Miton, 1960 * '' Garra langlungensis'' Ezung, Shangningam & Pankaj, 2021 * '' 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 lungongza'' Ngangbam & Lithoingambi, 2023 * '' Garra magnacavus'' Shangningam, Kosygin &

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Garra magnidiscus ''Garra magnidiscus'' is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus ''Garra''. Identified in 2013, ''Garra m.'' is found in the Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (; ) is a States and union territories of India, stat ...

'' Tamang, 2013 * '' Garra makiensis'' ( Boulenger, 1904) * '' Garra mamshuqa''

, 1983 * '' Garra manipurensis'' Vishwanath & Sarojnalini, 1988 * ''

Garra matensis ''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 belo ...

'' Nebeshwar & Vishwanath, 2017 * '' Garra mcclellandi'' ( Jerdon, 1849) * '' Garra menderesensis'' ( Küçük, Bayçelebi, Güçlü & Gülle, 2015) * '' Garra menoni'' Rema Devi & T. J. Indra, 1984 * '' Garra meymehensis'' Zamani-Faradonbe, Keivany, Dorafshan & E. Zhang, 2021 * '' Garra mini'' Rahman, Mollah, Norén & S. O. Kullander, 2016 * '' Garra minibarbata'' L. Cao, Nyingi, Bart & E. Zhang 2023 * '' 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 montisalsi'' Hora, 1921 * '' Garra motuoensis'' Z. Gong, Freyhof, J. Wang, M. Liu, F. Liu, P. C. Lin, Y. Jiang & H. Z. Liu 2018 * '' Garra moyonkhulleni'' Moyon & Arunkumar, 2018 * '' Garra mullya'' (

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, 1839) (sucker fish) * '' Garra naganensis'' Hora, 1921 * '' Garra nambulica'' Vishwanath & Joyshree, 2005r. * '' Garra namyaensis'' Shangningam & Vishwanath, 2012 * '' Garra nana'' ( Heckel, 1843) * '' Garra napata'' Moritz, Straube & Neumann, 2019 * '' Garra nasuta'' (McClelland, 1838) * '' Garra nepalensis'' Rayamajhi & Arunachalam, 2017 * '' Garra nethravathiensis'' Arunachalam & Nandagopal, 2014 * '' Garra ngatangkha'' Arunkumar & Moyon, 2019 * '' Garra ngopi''

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Garra nudiventris ''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 belo ...

'' (Berg, 1905) * '' Garra orientalis'' Nichols, 1925 * ''

Garra ornata ''Garra ornata'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae from rivers in West and Central Africa Central Africa (French language, French: ''Afrique centrale''; Spanish language, Spanish: ''África central''; Portuguese lang ...

'' (Nichols & Griscom, 1917) * '' Garra orontesi'' Bayçelebi,

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& Freyhof, 2021 * '' Garra palaniensis'' (Rema Devi & Menon, 1994) * '' Garra palaruvica'' Arunachalam,

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, 2023 * '' Garra paralissorhynchus'' Vishwanath & K. Shanta Devi, 2005 * '' Garra parastenorhynchus'' Thoni, Gurung & Mayden, 2016 * '' Garra paratrilobata'' Roni, Chinglemba, Rameshori & Vishwanath, 2019 * '' Garra periyarensis'' K. C. Gopi, 2001 * '' Garra persica'' Berg, 1914 * '' Garra phewakholaensis'' Limbu, Rajbanshi & Raza 2024 * '' Garra phillipsi'' Deraniyagala, 1933 (Phillips's garra) * '' Garra platycephala'' Narayan Rao, 1920 * '' Garra poecilura'' S. O. Kullander & F. Fang 2004 * '' Garra poilanei''

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& T. L. Tchang, 1933 * '' Garra prashadi'' Hora, 1921 * '' Garra propulvinus'' S. O. Kullander & F. Fang 2004 * ''

Garra qiaojiensis ''Garra qiaojiensis'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Garra ''Garra'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae. These fish are one example of the "log suckers", Suckermouth, sucker-mouthed Barb (fish), barb ...

'' H. W. Wu & Yao, 1977 * '' Garra quadratirostris'' Nebeshwar & Vishwanath, 2013 * '' Garra quadrimaculata'' (Rüppell 1835) * '' Garra quangtriensis'' V. H. Nguyễn, T.H.N. Vũ & T. D. P. Nguyễn, 2015 * '' Garra rakhinica'' S. O. Kullander & F. Fang 2004 * '' Garra ranganensis'' Tamang, Sinha, Abujam & Kumar, 2019 * ''

Garra regressa ''Garra regressa'' is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus ''Garra''. It is endemic to Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Af ...

'' Getahun & Stiassny, 2007 * '' Garra rezai'' Mousavi-Sabet, Eagderi, Saemi-Komsari, Kaya & Freyhof, 2022 * '' Garra rhynchota'' Koller, 1926 * '' Garra robertsi'' Thoni & Mayden, 2015 * '' Garra roseae'' Mousavi-Sabet, Saemi-Komsari, Doadrio & Freyhof, 2019 * '' Garra rossica'' ( A. M. Nikolskii, 1900) * '' Garra rotundinasus'' E. Zhang, 2006 * '' Garra rufa'' ( Heckel, 1843) (Red garra) * '' Garra rupecula'' (McClelland, 1839) * '' Garra sahilia'' Krupp, 1983 * '' Garra salweenica'' Hora & Mukerji, 1934 * '' Garra sannarensis'' Moritz, Straube & Neumann, 2019 * '' Garra sauvagei'' ( Lortet, 1883) * '' Garra shamal'' Kirchner, Kruckenhauser,

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, Borkenhagen & Freyhof, 2020 * '' Garra sharq'' Kirchner, Kruckenhauser, Pichler, Borkenhagen & Freyhof, 2020 * '' Garra simbalbaraensis'' Rath, Shangningam & Kosygin, 2019 * '' Garra sindhi''

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, Geiger & Freyhof, 2016. * '' Garra songbangensis'' V. H. Nguyễn, T.H.N. Vũ & T. D. P. Nguyễn, 2015 * '' Garra spilota'' S. O. Kullander & F. Fang, 2004 * '' Garra stenorhynchus'' Jerdon, 1849 * ''

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'' Roni & Vishwanath, 2018 * '' Garra surendranathanii'' C. P. Shaji, L. K. Arun & P. S. Easa, 1996 * ''

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'' W. Zhou & C. Sun, 2018 * '' Garra surinbinnani'' Page, Ray, Tongnunui, Boyd & Randall, 2019 * '' Garra tamangi'' Gurumayum & Kosygin, 2016 * '' Garra tana'' Getahun & Stiassny, 2007 * '' Garra tashanensis'' Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Fatemi & Eagderi, 2016 * '' Garra tengchongensis'' E. Zhang & Y. Y. Chen, 2002 * '' Garra tezuensis'' Thoidingjam, Ngangbam, Linthoingambi & Kh. R. Singh, 2023 * '' Garra tiam'' Zamani-Faradonbe, Keivany, Dorafshan & E. Zhang, 2021 * '' Garra tibanica'' Trewavas, 1941 * '' Garra tibetana'' G. Zheng; S. Q. Deng; J. Wang; H. Z. Lui, 2018 * '' Garra trewavasae'' Monod, 1950 * '' Garra triangularis'' Shangningam, Rath & Kosygin, 2021 * '' Garra trilobata'' Shangningam & Vishwanath, 2015 * '' Garra turcica''

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References

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