Garra Tamangi
📖 Overview
The habitat consists of medium to large dark to grayish brown boulders irregularly placed, with pebbles, cobbles, concrete in certain places and heavy sand deposits somewhere near banks. The river banks consist of shrubs, small trees, and larger trees somewhere, with the river water clear and cool. Associated fish collected in the type locality belongs to genus Bangana, Labeo, Barilius, Devario and Chagunius .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
This species is distinguished from all its congeners in the Ganga-Brahmaputra River drainage in having a roughly a triangular proboscis, trilobed with two small lobes anteriorly free and a large median lobe antero ventrally tuberculated; di-,tri-and tetracuspid tubercles on snout; pectoral-fin branched rays 13-14; lateral line scales 33-34; predorsal scales 10-11; head length 24.8- 27.9% SL; snout length 56-98% HL; eye diameter 14-19% HL; mental disc length 39-41% HL, its width 53-59% HL; central callous pad length 22-27% HL, width 29-34% HL; transverse scale rows above lateral line 4, between lateral line and pelvic-fin origin 2½ .Cross section: oval.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Garra Tamangi is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
🥚 Reproduction
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🦠 Common Diseases
The following diseases are known to affect Garra Tamangi.
🔍 Similar Species
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