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Cypriniformes (Carps) >
Cyprinidae (Minnows or carps) > Labeoninae
Etymology: Garra: Name based on a vernacular Indian name (Hamilton, 1822:343, Ref. 1813); a fish living in mud (Ref. 128817); nethravathiensis: Named for the river where the specimen was collected and netharavathiensis is the replacement name for robustus (appeared in a project report (M. A.) as a nomen nudum (Rajeev Raghavan et al., 2013)..
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical
Asia: Nethravathi River in Karnataka State, India.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 18.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 96640)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Vertebrae: 31. Differs from its congeners from Western Ghats mountain ranges of peninsular India by having the following characters: pompous size, broad and round central pad of the sucking disc and
almost a horse shoe shaped swelling in front and on sides of median pad; snout broadly rounded with deep transverse groove with pointed tubercles arranged irregularly but approximately three rows in each side; proboscis absent; 30-31 scales on lateral line; 15-16 scales around caudal peduncle; 4.5/2.5/3.5 transverse-scale rows; well developed scales present up to chest region (Ref. 96640).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvae
Arunachalam, M. and S. Nandagopal, 2014. A new species of the genus Garra Hamilton, (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from Nethravathi River, Western Ghats, India. Species 10(24):43-57. (Ref. 96640)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: of no interest
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00955 (0.00451 - 0.02020), b=3.04 (2.86 - 3.22), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Resilience (Ref.
120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (13 of 100).