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Issue: Vol. 1743 No. 1: 7 Apr. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-04-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1743.1.6
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 164
PDF downloaded: 5

Garra findolabium, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Red River drainage in Yunnan, China

Faculty of Conservation Biology, Southwest Forestry College; Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control in Yunnan Higher Education Institutions, Kunming 650224, P. R. China
Faculty of Conservation Biology, Southwest Forestry College; Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control in Yunnan Higher Education Institutions, Kunming 650224, P. R. China
Faculty of Conservation Biology, Southwest Forestry College; Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control in Yunnan Higher Education Institutions, Kunming 650224, P. R. China
Fish Garra new species Red River Yunnan

Abstract

Garra findolabium, new species, is described from the Red River (Yuan-Jiang in Chinese, Song Hong in Vietnamese) in Yunnan, China. It can be distinguished from all other congeners in Southeast Asia and China by the following combination of characters: posterior edge of the oral sucking disc with a median fissure and divided it into two lamellas; caudal fin with an anomalistic dark patch, extending to 50% of length of caudal fin; no barbels; absence of proboscis in front of nostrils; 37–38 lateral-line scales; 16 circumpeduncular scales; distance of anus to anal-fin origin about 33.3–38.7% of distance of pelvic-fin origin to anal-fin origin.

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