Garra elegans

Garra elegans,[2][3] previously Hemigrammocapoeta elegans,[4] is a species of cyprinid fish. It is a benthopelagic freshwater species endemic to the Euphrates – Tigris basin in Western Asia.[4]

Garra elegans

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Labeoninae
Genus: Garra
Species:
G. elegans
Binomial name
Garra elegans
(Günther, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Hemigrammocapoeta elegans (Günther, 1868)
  • Hemigarra elegans (Günther, 1868)
  • Tylognathus elegans Günther, 1868

References
  1. Freyhof, J. (2014). "Hemigrammocapoeta elegans". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2014: e.T19088796A19223113. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19088796A19223113.en.
  2. Eschmeyer W (2016) elegans, Tylognathus In: Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved June 2016
  3. Behrens-Chapuis, S., Herder, F., Esmaeili, H.R., Freyhof, J., Hamidan, N.A., Özuluğ, M., Šanda, R. & Geiger, M.F. (2015): Adding nuclear rhodopsin data where mitochondrial COI indicates discrepancies – can this marker help to explain conflicts in cyprinids? DNA Barcodes, 3 (1): 187-199.
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Garra elegans" in FishBase. April 2016 version.


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