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Issue: Vol. 4154 No. 1: 18 Aug. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-08-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.1.5
Page range: 79–88
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 2

Garra sindhi, a new species from the Jebel Samhan Nature Reserve in Oman (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Earthwatch Oman, Al Bashair Plaza 35, Madinat Sultaan Qaboos, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Pisces Freshwater fish Arabian Peninsula Dhofar biodiversity

Abstract

Garra sindhi, new species, is described from Wadi Andhur in the Dhofar province of the Sultanate of Oman. It is closely related to G. dunsirei and G. smarti, two other species from the same Omani province. It differs from these species by the following combination of characters: breast covered by scales, a shallow hump on back, eyes normally developed and 8–12 gill rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch.

 

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