Garra arupi

Garra arupi is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus Garra from the upper Brahmaputra basin in Arunachal Pradesh.

Garra arupi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Labeoninae
Genus: Garra
Species:
G. arupi
Binomial name
Garra arupi
Nebeshwar, Vishwanath & D. N. Das, 2009[1]


Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Arup Kumar Das (b. 1952), the Coordinator of the University Grant Commission-sponsored “Centre of Excellence in Biodiversity” of the Rajiv Gandhi University, in Itanagar, India.[2]


References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Garra arupi" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily LABEONINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 April 2022.


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