Overview

Comprehensive Description

Biology

Inhabits mountain streams on gravel bottom and adheres to stones through its sucking disk (Ref. 51717).
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Distribution

Range Description

Garra qiaojiensis is known from Mang Tong He stream, a tributary of the Hotha He River, above Tian Xin village on the upper Irrawaddy River drainage in China. Type locality is Qiaojie, Yunnan Province, China. Another record is from close to the Myanmar border (on road from Tengchong to Myanmar border at Tengchong or Guyong, Latitude: 25.3167, Longitude: 98.3) (GBIF).
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Asia: China.
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Physical Description

Size

Max. size

17.1 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 45621))
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Ecology

Habitat

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology
The fish inhabits mountain streams and rivers and it is a bottom dweller.

Systems
  • Freshwater
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Environment

benthopelagic; freshwater
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Conservation

Conservation Status

IUCN Red List Assessment


Red List Category
DD
Data Deficient

Red List Criteria

Version
3.1

Year Assessed
2010

Assessor/s
Singh, L.

Reviewer/s
Arunachalam, M., Rema Devi, K.R., Dahanukar, N., Vishwanath, W., Daniel, B.A. & Molur, S.

Contributor/s
Molur, S.

Justification

Garra qiaojiensis is known only from two or three locations in Irrawaddy River drainage in China, however, little else is known about this species, and it is assessed as Data Deficient.

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Population

Population
There is no information on the population and its trends for this species.

Population Trend
Unknown
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Threats

Threats

Major Threats
Threats to this species are not known.
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Data deficient (DD)
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Management

Conservation Actions

Conservation Actions
Further survey work is needed to determine whether or not this species is experiencing a decline, or is undergoing extreme population fluctuations.
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Wikipedia

Garra qiaojiensis

Garra qiaojiensis is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Garra.

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Garra qiaojiensis" in FishBase. April 2006 version.


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