Garra mondica, a new species from the Mond River drainage with remarks on the genus Garra from the Persian Gulf basin in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Author
Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
Author
Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Author
Freyhof, Jörg
text
Zootaxa
2015
4048
1
75
89
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4048.1.4
a697d038-f186-4d33-8430-1e1e3fb534d5
1175-5326
290096
B90AB89E-05ED-44F0-B78C-EBECF5DEC02D
Key to species of
Garra
in the Persian Gulf basin
1a Subterranean species, body whitish or pink; eye absent........................................................ 2
1b Epigean species, body brown or grey, usually mottled; eye fully developed....................................... 3
2a Mental disc absent; body naked.................................................................
G. typhlops
2a Mental disc present; body fully covered by scales or scales restricted to lateral midline....................
G. widdowsoni
3a One pair of barbels..........................................................................
G. variabilis
3b Two pairs of barbels................................................................................... 4
4a Usually 8+8 branched caudal-fin rays...............................................................
G. persica
4b Usually 9+8 branched caudal-fin rays...................................................................... 5
5a Breast, anterior belly and mid-dorsal area in front of dorsal-fin origin naked, usually 7½ branched dorsal-fin rays
G. mondica
5b Mid-dorsal area in front of dorsal-fin origin always covered by scales; breast and belly usually covered by scales, naked in few populations; usually 8½ branched dorsal-fin rays.......................................................
G. rufa