Garra dunsirei Banister 1987

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author Freyhof, Jörg
Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran
Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash
Kaya, Cüneyt
author_facet Freyhof, Jörg
Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran
Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash
Kaya, Cüneyt
contents <p><b><i>Garra dunsirei</i></b></p><p><b>Common name</b>. Tawi Attair garra.</p><p><b>Diagnosis</b>. Distinguished from other species of <i>Garra</i> in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Dhofar (Oman) by: ● neural spines very short and not penetrating between dorsal pterygiophores / ○ subterranean, body whitish or pink / ○ eye small / ○ scales on chest and belly reduced or absent. Size up to 81 mm SL.</p><p><b>Distribution</b>. Oman: Sinkhole at Tawi Attair in Jabal Qara Mountains in Dhofar region.</p><p><b>Habitat</b>. Subterranean species. Found in a large side passage about 200 m below surface, which may be a window into a much larger underground cave system.</p><p><b>Biology</b>. No data. Captive individuals have been reported to live up to 16 years; no data are available from wild, but life expectancy in wild is likely to be much shorter.</p><p><b>Conservation status.</b> CR; restricted to a single known locality where it has not been found in recent years. Fewer than 250 mature individuals are believed to exist, although this may be underestimated due to the difficulty of thoroughly exploring the sinkhole.</p><p><b>Remarks</b>. Its closest relatives are <i>G. smartae</i> and <i>G. sindhae</i>. Despite being a young species, it shows very strong and distinct evolutionary trajectories and represents a different species under the Evolutionary Species Concept.</p><p><b>Further reading.</b> Banister 1987 (description); Hamidan et al. 2014 (phylogeny); Freyhof et al. 2020 (distribution, identification); Sayyadzadeh et al. 2023 (phylogeny).</p>
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spellingShingle Garra dunsirei Banister 1987
Freyhof, Jörg
Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran
Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash
Kaya, Cüneyt
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Garra
Garra dunsirei
<p><b><i>Garra dunsirei</i></b></p><p><b>Common name</b>. Tawi Attair garra.</p><p><b>Diagnosis</b>. Distinguished from other species of <i>Garra</i> in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Dhofar (Oman) by: ● neural spines very short and not penetrating between dorsal pterygiophores / ○ subterranean, body whitish or pink / ○ eye small / ○ scales on chest and belly reduced or absent. Size up to 81 mm SL.</p><p><b>Distribution</b>. Oman: Sinkhole at Tawi Attair in Jabal Qara Mountains in Dhofar region.</p><p><b>Habitat</b>. Subterranean species. Found in a large side passage about 200 m below surface, which may be a window into a much larger underground cave system.</p><p><b>Biology</b>. No data. Captive individuals have been reported to live up to 16 years; no data are available from wild, but life expectancy in wild is likely to be much shorter.</p><p><b>Conservation status.</b> CR; restricted to a single known locality where it has not been found in recent years. Fewer than 250 mature individuals are believed to exist, although this may be underestimated due to the difficulty of thoroughly exploring the sinkhole.</p><p><b>Remarks</b>. Its closest relatives are <i>G. smartae</i> and <i>G. sindhae</i>. Despite being a young species, it shows very strong and distinct evolutionary trajectories and represents a different species under the Evolutionary Species Concept.</p><p><b>Further reading.</b> Banister 1987 (description); Hamidan et al. 2014 (phylogeny); Freyhof et al. 2020 (distribution, identification); Sayyadzadeh et al. 2023 (phylogeny).</p>
title Garra dunsirei Banister 1987
topic Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Garra
Garra dunsirei
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17819865