Garra rufa ( Heckel, 1843 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald, 2023, Freshwater fishes of Iraq: a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023, Zootaxa 5357 (1), pp. 1-49 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10018667

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D65887E4-FFA1-FF8F-98C8-D2AEFE0BF921

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Plazi

scientific name

Garra rufa ( Heckel, 1843 )
status

 

Garra rufa ( Heckel, 1843) View in CoL [N]—Red garra

Taxonomy. Original description: Discognathus rufus Heckel, 1843: 1071 View in CoL [81] [Aleppo, Syria; lectotype: NMW 53240 (108 mm SL)].— Iraq synonyms: Discognathus obtusus Heckel, 1843 View in CoL ; Discognathus crenulatus Heckel, 1847 View in CoL .—Revisions: Sayyadzadeh et al. (2015); Esmaeili et al. (2016 a).—Illustration: Heckel (1843: pl. 8 (fig. 2)) as Discognathus rufus View in CoL ; Esmaeili et al. (2016 a: 108, fig. 23); Esmaeili et al. (2016 a: 109, fig. 24) as Discognathus crenulatus View in CoL ).

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Heckel (1843).—Iraq materials: NMW.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Euphrates and Tigris river basins.—General distribution: Middle East: Euphrates and Tigris river basins ( Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran).—Habitat: This species inhabits a very wide range of flowing water habitats, from fast-flowing headwaters and reservoirs to polluted canals and large lowland rivers. Usually absent from standing waters. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Locally consumed, but of no commercial importance.

Conservation. Conservation Status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: LC (IUCN 2023).—Threats: There are many threats in the area, but none is serious enough to have a significant impact on this species.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered as a keystone species.—Decline status: Decreasing.—Low priority for conservation action.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopteri

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

SubFamily

Labeoninae

Genus

Garra

Loc

Garra rufa ( Heckel, 1843 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald 2023
2023
Loc

Discognathus crenulatus

Heckel 1847
1847
Loc

Discognathus crenulatus

Heckel 1847
1847
Loc

Discognathus rufus

Heckel 1843: 1071
1843
Loc

Discognathus obtusus

Heckel 1843
1843
Loc

Discognathus rufus

Heckel 1843
1843
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