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Issue: Vol. 5512 No. 4: 23 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.4.7
Page range: 579-589
Abstract views: 172
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Garra zubzaensis, a new fish species (Cyprinidae: Labeoninae) from the Brahmaputra River basin, Nagaland, North-Eastern India

Department of Fisheries Resources Management; College of Fisheries; Central Agricultural University (I); Lembucherra; Tripura 799 210; India
Zoological Survey of India; Freshwater Fish Section; 27 JL Nehru Road; Kolkata; 700016 India
Department of Fisheries Resources Management; College of Fisheries; Central Agricultural University (I); Lembucherra; Tripura 799 210; India
Department of Fisheries Resources Management; College of Fisheries; Central Agricultural University (I); Lembucherra; Tripura 799 210; India
Zoological Survey of India; Freshwater Fish Section; 27 JL Nehru Road; Kolkata; 700016 India
Pisces Fish taxonomy New species Zubza River Kohima Eastern Himalaya

Abstract

A new species of Garra (Labeoninae) is described from the Zubza River, a headwater of the Brahmaputra River basin, in Kohima district of Nagaland, North-eastern India. The new species is distinguished by the following combination of characters: a black spot located on the principal ray and first three branched rays of the dorsal (upper) lobe distal part, as well as a black submarginal V-shaped band on the principal ray and whole branched rays of the ventral (lower) lobe of caudal fin; snout with weakly-developed proboscis represented by slightly upwards elevated hump, with no transverse groove and no transverse lobe, and with 10–12 small tubercles on anterodorsal marginal aspect; 34 lateral-line scales including two pored scales on caudal fin; absence of scales on chest and presence of poorly developed scales on belly; relatively shorter caudal peduncle (10.7–12.5 % SL), and snout (34–35 % HL); and relatively larger eye (31–32 % HL).

 

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