Garra phillipsi

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• Description
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Overview

Family : Minnows or carps ; Occurs in rocky areas of hill streams , almost always in fast-flowing water. More common in deeper and more heavily shaded areas of clear-water streams. Occurs sympatrically with G. ceylonensis in its limited range . Feeds essentially on algae in captivity. This species is easy to maintain in aquarium .

Common Names

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Description

Family Cyprinidae

Distribution: North America (northern Canada to southern Mexico), Africa, and Eurasia . Pharynx with 1-3 rows of teeth, each row with a maximum of 8 teeth. Usually thin lips , plicae or papillae absent; mouth sometimes suckerlike (Garra and Labeo). With or without barbels . Premaxilla usually borders the upper jaw making the maxilla entirely or almost entirely excluded from the gape. Usually protrusible upper jaw. Dorsal fin with spinelike rays in some. Primitive number of chromosomes 2n=50, some with 48; polyploidy exists. Maximum length at least 2.5 m to probably 3 m in Catlocarpio siamensis; many species less than 5 cm. Mainly non-guarders, but in some species males build nests and/or protect the eggs .The family Cyprinidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes ) and the Order Cypriniformes. It contains 210 genera and 2010 species. It may be found in Brackish , and Freshwater environments and is primarily Primary freshwater. Many members of this family are used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is subcarangiform. Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be normal. Members of this family have been dated back to the Eocene epoch of the Tertiary period. This family may be found from 70° n to 34° s and 150° w to 170° e. Etymology of this family name : Greek, kyprinos = goldfish .

Habitat

Biome: Fresh water . Benthopelagic.

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Garra ceylonensis phillipsi (Non Deraniyagala, 1933)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 23-Aug-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Garra

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 133 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

G. ornata · G. abhoyai · G. allostoma · G. alta · G. annandalei (Annandale Garra) · G. apogon · G. arabica · G. barreimiae (Nister and Clarke) · G. barreimiae barreimiae · G. barreimiae shawkahensis · G. bicornuta (Tunga Garra) · G. bispinosa · G. borneensis · G. borneensiss · G. buettikeri · G. cambodgiensis (Siamese Stone Lapping Fish) · G. caudofasciata · G. ceylonensis (Stone Sucker) · G. ceylonensis ceylonensis (Stone Sucker) · G. chaudhurii · G. compressus · G. congoensis · G. cyclostomata · G. cyrano · G. dembecha · G. dembeensis (Dembea Stone Lapper) · G. dunsirei · G. elongata · G. ethelwynnae · G. fasciacauda · G. fisheri · G. flavatra · G. fuliginosa · G. geba · G. ghorensis · G. gotyla · G. gotyla gotyla (Stone Roller) · G. gotyla stenorhynchus (Nilgiris Garra) · G. gracilis · G. gravelyi · G. hainanensis · G. hughi (Cardamon Garra) · G. ignestii · G. imberba · G. imberbis · G. jenkinsonianum · G. jerdoni · G. jerdoni brevimentalia · G. johnstoni · G. kalakadensis · G. kempi (Kemp Garra) · G. laichowensis · G. lamata · G. lampta · G. lamta (Lamta Garra) · G. lancrenonensis · G. lautior · G. lissorhynchus (Khasi Garra) · G. litanensis · G. longipinnis · G. makiensis · G. malabarica · G. mamshuqa · G. manipurensis · G. mcclellandi (Cauvery Garra) · G. menoni · G. micropulvinus · G. mirofrontis · G. mullya (Mullya Garra) · G. naganensis (Naga Garra) · G. nambulica · G. nasuta (Khasi Garra) · G. nasutus · G. nigricollis · G. nilamburensis · G. notata (Tenasserim Garra) · G. orientalis · G. ornata · G. parvifilum · G. periyarensis · G. persica · G. phillipsi (Phillips's Garra) · G. pingi hainanensis · G. pingi pingi · G. pingi yiliangensis · G. platycephala · G. poecilura · G. poilanei · G. prashadi · G. propulvinus · G. qiaojiensis · G. quadrimaculata · G. rakhinica · G. rossica · G. rossica nudiventris · G. rotundinasus · G. rufa · G. rufa crenulata · G. rufa gymnothorax · G. rufa obtusa

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Further Reading

• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Pethiyagoda, R. (1991). Freshwater fishes of Sri Lanka. The Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka, Colombo. 362 p.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 20, 2007.
• Costa, Wilson J.E.M. (from FishBase).
• FishBase 2006.
• Pethiyagoda, R. 1996. Garra phillipsi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Pethiyagoda, R. 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2492780
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-33660
• Fishbase Species ID: 9804
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 689108
• IUCN ID: 8918
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5369

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