Metadata

Garra tashanensis

Mousavi-Savet, Vatandoust, Fatemi and Eagderi 2016

ORDERSUB-ORDERFAMILY
CypriniformesCyprinoideiCyprinidae

Synonyms

None.

Country

Iran

Types

Holotype: VMFC GT-H 22mm SL.

Paratypes: VMFC GT-P1 to VMFC GT-P3 (3 specimens) 24-27mm SL.

Distribution

Known only from the type locailty: Tashan Cave, Sarjusher Village, Tashan region, Khuzestan Province, Iran (30o51'91"N, 50o10'49"E) altitude 490m.

Habitat

Tashan Cave is a chemoautotrophic ecology where nutrients are derived from xxxx rather than from the epigean as in the majority of caves (Fatemi et al. 2019, Brad et al. 2021). The cave contains Trogloiranica tashanica (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Moitessieriidae) (Fatemi et al. 2019) and Stenasellus tashanicus (Crustacea, Isopoda, Stenasellidae) (Khalaji-Pirbalouty et al. 2018).

Systematics

Two morphological forms of the fish in Tashan Cave are known: one with a mental disk and one without (Hashemzadeh Segherloo et al 2022). Genetic studies stronly support the conclusion that these are each others closest relatives and that the phenomenon is a good example of phenotypic plasicity in a relaxed selective regime.

Conservation Status

TLO [NE]

Museum Holdings

As above plus: VMFC GL-NT1 to VMFCGL-NT3 (3 specimens) 55.8-74.0mm SL.

Internet Resources

Zoobank entry

Brian Coad's freshwater fishes of Iran website

Genbank COI (1) (Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2016, Zamani-Faradonbe et al 2021)

Genbank COI (2) (Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2016, Zamani-Faradonbe et al 2021)

Key References

Esmaeili, H.R., Coad, B.W., Gholamifard, A., Nazari, N. and Teimory, A. Journal Article 2010 Annotated сhecklist of the freshwater fishes of Iran
Raeisi, E., and Laumanns, M. Book 2012 Cave Directory of Iran: 3rd edition
Jouladeh-Roudbar, A., Vatandoust, S., Eagderi, S., Jafari-Kenari, S. and Mousavi-Sabet, H. Journal Article 2015 Freshwater fishes of Iran: An updated checklist
Sayyadzadeh, G., Esmaeili, H.R. and Freyhof, J. Journal Article 2015 Garra mondica, a new species from the Mond River drainage with remarks on the genus Garra from the Persian Gulf basin in Iran
Bagheri, M., Goudarzi, F., Zalaghi, A.H. and Savabieasfahani, M. Journal Article 2016 Habitat characteristics and population size of Iranocypris typhlops, the Iran cave barb
Mousavi-Sabet, H., Vatandoust, S., Fatemi, Y. and Eagderi, S. Journal Article 2016 Tashan Cave a new cavefish locality for Iran; and Garra tashanensis, a new blind species from the Tigris River drainage (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Teimori, A., Mostafavi, H. and Esmaeli, H.R. Journal Article 2016 An update note on diversity and conservation of the endemic fishes in Iranian inland waters
Esmaeili, H.R., Sayyadzadeh, G., Coad, B.W. and Eagderi, S. Journal Article 2016 Review of the genus Garra Hamilton, 1822 in Iran with description of a new species: a morpho-molecular approach (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Malek-Hosseini, M.J. and Zamani, A. Journal Article 2017 A checklist of subterranean arthropods of Iran
Nebeshwar, K and Vishwanath, W Journal Article 2017 On the snout and oromandibular morphology of genus Garra, description of two new species from the Koladyne River basin in Mizoram, India, and redescription of G. manipurensis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Esmaeili, H.R., Mehraban, H., Abbasi, K., Keivany, Y. and Coad, B. Journal Article 2017 Review and updated checklist of freshwater fishes of Iran: Taxonomy, distribution and conservation status
Hashemzadeh Segherloo, I., Abdoli, A., Eagderi, S., Esmaeili, H.R., Sayyadzadeh, G., Bernatchez, L., Hallerman, E., Geiger, M.F., Ozulug, M., Laroche, J. and Freyhof, J. Journal Article 2017 Dressing down: convergent reduction of the mental disc in Garra (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in the Middle East
Vardanjani, H.K., Bahadorinia, S. and Ford, D.C. Book Section 2017 An introduction to hypogene karst regions and caves of Iran.
Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V., Fatemi, Y., Malek-Hosseini, M.J. and Kuntner, M. Journal Article 2018 A new species of Stenasellus Dollfus, 1897 from Iran, with a key to the western Asian species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Stenasellidae)
Esmaeili, H.R., Sayyadzadeh, G., Eagderi, S. and Abbasi, K. Journal Article 2018 Checklist of freshwater fishes of Iran
Fatemi, Y., Malek Hosseini, M.-J., Falniowski, A., Hofman, S., Kuntner, M. and Grego, J. Journal Article 2019 Description of a new genus and species as the first gastropod species from caves in Iran
Barmaki, M.D., Rezaei, M., Raeisi, C.E. and Ashjari, J. Journal Article 2019 Comparison of surface and interior karst development in Zagros karst Aaquifers, southwest Iran.
Jouladeh-Roudbar, A., Ghanavi, H.R. and Doadrio, I. Journal Article 2020 Ichthyofauna from Iranian freshwater: Annotated checklist, diagnosis, taxonomy, distribution and conservation assessment
Saemi-Komsari, M., Mousavi-Sabet, H., Sattari, M., Eagderi, S., Vatandoust, S. and Doadrio, I. Journal Article 2020 Descriptive osteology of Garra rossica (Nikolskii 1900)
Zamani-Faradonbe, M., Keivany, Y., Dorafshan, S. and Zhang, E. Journal Article 2021 Two new species of Garra (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from western Iran
Zamani-Faradonbe M. and Keivany Y. Journal Article 2021 Biodiversity and distribution of Garra species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Iran
Zamanpoore, M. Book Section 2021 Biodiversity of the freshwater Amphipods in Iran
Freyhof, J., Kaya, C. and Ali, A. Book Section 2021 A critical checklist of the inland fishes native to the Euphrates and Tigris drainages
Zamani-Faradonbe, M. and Keivany, Y. Journal Article 2021 Comparative osteology of two Garra species (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) from Hormuz and Sistan basins of Iran
Zamani-Faradonbe, M., Zhang, E. and Keivany, Y. Journal Article 2021 Garra hormuzensis, a new species from the upper Kol River drainage in the Persian Gulf basin (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Ashraf, S., Nazemi, A. and AghaKouchak, A. Journal Article 2021 Anthropogenic drought dominates groundwater depletion in Iran
Hashemzadeh Segherloo, I., Najafi Chaloshtory, S., Naser, M.D., Yasser, A.G., Tabatabaei, S.N., Piette‑Lauziere, G., Mashtizadeh, A., Elmi, A., Sedighi, O., Changizi, A., Hallerman, E. and Bernatchez Journal Article 2022 Sympatric morphotypes of the restricted‑range Tashan Cave Garra: distinct species or a case of phenotypic plasticity?
Hashemzadeh Segherloo, I., Najafi Chaloshtory, S., Naser, M.D., Yasser, A.G., Tabatabaei, S.N., Piette‑Lauziere, G., Mashtizadeh, A., Elmi, A., Sedighi, O., Changizi, A., Hallerman, E. and Bernatchez, L. Journal Article 2022 Two different mental disc forms in the Tashan cave Garra: different species or ecotypes?
Malek-Hosseini, M.J., Jugovic, J., Fatemi, Y., Kuntner, M., Kostanjšek, R., Douady, C.J. and Malard, F. Journal Article 2022 A new obligate groundwater species of Asellus (Isopoda, Asellidae) from Iran
Yousefi, M., Jouladeh-Roudbar, S. and Kafash, A. Journal Article 2023 Mapping endemic freshwater fish richness to identify high priority areas for conservation: an ecoregion approach
Malek-Hosseini, M.J., Flot, J.-F., Fatemi, Y., Babolimoakher, H., Kuntner, M., Diripasko, O.A., Jelić, D. and Bogutskaya, N.G. Journal Article 2023 The first record of a stygobiotic form of Garra rufa (Heckel, 1843), sympatric with Garra tashanensis Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Fatemi and Eagderi, 2016 (Teleostei, Cyprinidae), in Iranian subterranean waters
Segherloo, I.H., Chaloshtory, S.N., Yasser, A.G., Naser, M.D., Normandeau, E., Mashtizadeh, A., Elmi, A., Sedighi, O., Changizi, A., Hallerman, E. and Bernatchez, L. Journal Article 2023 Flexibility of life to survive limitations: oral disc forms in the Tashan Cave barb Garra tashanensis
Malek-Hosseini, M.J., Brad, T., Fatemi, Y., Kuntner, M. and Fišer, C. Journal Article 2023 A new cave-dwelling hadzioid amphipod (Senticaudata, Hadzioidea, Melitidae) from sulfidic groundwaters in Iran
Hashemzadeh Segherloo, I., Abdolahi‑Mousavi, S.E., Birgani, A.A., Normandeau, E., Hallerman, E., Bernatchez, L. and Freyhof, J. Journal Article 2024 Distribution and conservation of subterranean fishes of Iran: insights from a new locality