Garra arupi

Garra arupi
Scientific classification
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]

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

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

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Garra arupi" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
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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[1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Garra arupi" in FishBase. April 2006 version.

[ETYFish-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.