A review of Garra (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from two rivers in West Yunnan, China with description of a new species
Author
Sun, Chao
Author
Li, Xu
Author
Zhou, Wei
Author
Li, Fenglian
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-02-07
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Garra bispinosa
Zhang
(
Figs. 3D
and
5
)
Garra orientalis
:
Chu & Cui 1987
(in part): 94–96 (Nabang in Yingjiang Co.);
Chu & Cui 1989
(in part): 275–277 (Nabang in Yingjiang Co.);
Zhang
et al
. 2000
(in part): 238–241 (Yingjiang Co., Yunnan, China) [Irrawaddy drainage].
Garra bispinosa
Zhang: Zhang 2005
: 9–15 (? Daying-jiang drainage, Yunnan, China);
Chen 2013
: 311 (? Longchuan-jiang and Daying-jiang drainage, Yunnan, China).
Material examined.
SWFC
0103199–0103201, 0 103203, 0103205–0103210, 0 603002, 0 603004, 12 ex.,
88.1– 107.5 mm
SL,
Yunnan
: Yingjiang: Nabang, Mulei-jiang, an upper tributary of the
Irrawaddy
River.
Diagnosis.
Meristic and morphometric data are shown in
Tables 3
and
4
.
Garra bispinosa
is distinguished from congeners with the transverse lobe and the proboscis in the
Irrawaddy
River and Salween River basins by having the following combination of characters: bi-lobed proboscis (vs. unilobed proboscis in
G. elongata
,
G. gotyla
,
G. litanensis
,
G. qiaojiensis
, and
G. rotundinasus
; tri-lobed proboscis in
G. fuliginosa
,
G. salweenica
, and
G. surgifrons
sp. nov.
); proboscis free anteriorly (vs. not free in
G. gotyla
); 16 circumpeduncular scales (vs.
12 in
G. qiaojiensis
,
G. litanensis
, and
G. rotundinasus
); 9–11 predorsal scales (vs.
10–12 in
G. gotyla
).
Distribution.
The species is only known from the upper Mulei-jiang, an upper tributary of the
Irrawaddy
River drainage.
Remark.
The original description by
Zhang (2005)
only recorded
G. bispinosa
in the Daying-jiang drainage without the specific localities or stream name. Yingjiang County of
Yunnan Province
,
China
is located at the boundary between
China
and
Myanmar
. Most rivers and streams in west Yingjiang County flow directly to
Myanmar
and converge into the mainstem of the
Irrawaddy
River, rather than into the Dayingjiang drainage in the eastern region of Yingjiang County. According to our records of
Garra
in west
Yunnan
,
G. bispinosa
has only been found in the upper tributaries of the Mulei-jiang (an upper tributary of the
Irrawaddy
River) from Nabang, Yingjiang County,
Yunnan
,
China
, rather than in the Daying-jiang drainage.