Garra typhlops

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Labeoninae
Tribus: Garrini
Genus: Garra
Species: Garra typhlops

Name

Garra typhlops (Bruun & Kaiser, 1944)

• Holotype: ZMUC P26475.
• Paratypes: ZMUC P26476-80 (5).

Type locality: From a flood resurgence at Kaaje-Ru, valley of Ab-i-Serum, Lorestan Province, Zagros mountains, Iran, 33°05'N, 48°36'E.

Etymology: blind, a cave fish with “no external traces of eyes to be seen”. (From The ETYFish project

Synonyms

• Iranocypris typhlops Bruun & Kaiser, 1944

Vernacular names

English: Iran Cave Barb

References

• Bagheri, M., Goudarzi, F., Zalaghi, A.H. & Savabieasfahani, M. 2016. Habitat characteristics and population size of Iranocypris typhlops, the Iran cave barb. Environmental Biology of Fishes, First online: 10 February 2016.DOI: 10.1007/s10641-015-0465-6Reference page. 
• Bruun, A.F. & Kaiser, E.W. 1944. Iranocypris typhlops n. g., n. sp., the first true cave-fish from Asia. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran (Copenhagen), 4: 1–8, Pl. 1.Reference page. 

Links

• Garra typhlops in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Garra typhlops in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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