The current status of the inland waters ichthyofauna of Iran is revised and updated. A total of
292 fish species belong to 3 classes, 24 orders, 36 families and 106 genera inhabit the …

Movile Cave hosts one of the world's most diverse subsurface invertebrate communities. In
the absence of matter and energy input from the surface, this ecosystem relies entirely on in …

One of the most important steps in conservation of the subterranean life forms is to decipher
their distribution and ecology, which is challenging using traditional approaches …

Garra rezai, new species, is described from the Chooman, a tributary of the Lesser Zab in
Iran, and from headwaters of the Yanarsu, a tributary of the upper Tigris in Turkey. It is …

The Garra species inhabiting the Hajar Mountains are revised and five species are
recognised, two of which are newly species described herein. Garra barreimiae, from the …

Garra is the most species-rich genus of freshwater fishes in the Arabian Peninsula, including
Oman, which has eight recognized, species restricted mainly to the Hajar and Dhofar …

Abstract Among Tashan cave barb Garra tashanensis inhabiting a small cave in southwest
Iran, two mental disc (sucking mouth disc) forms were observed. To assess their …

Cyprinids of the genus Garra are widespread in the Persian Gulf basin, including the Tigris
and Euphrates drainages (Hamidan et al., 2014; Esmaeili et al., 2018). Garra species of the …

With only 43 described stygobionts and only two isopod species the obligate groundwater
fauna of Iran, a vast country with over 10% of limestone surface, is inadequately known …

We report the first finding of the stygobiotic form of the cyprinid fish Garra rufa (Heckel,
1843), discovered in a single locality in southwestern Iran, while the epigean form of the …