persica, Garra Berg [L. S.] 1914:61 [Ezhegodnik. Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Akademii Nauk SSSR. v. 18 (for 1913); ref. 14942] Bampur River, southern Iran; Kiabad in Zirkuh, eastern Khorassan. Syntypes: (7) ZIN 11706-07 (1, 6). Non-types: ?ZSI F11101/1 (3). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:111 [ref. 20743], Bianco & Banarescu 1982 [ref. 8508]. •Synonym of Garra rufa (Heckel 1843), but a valid subspecies -- (Bianco & Bănărescu 1982:76 [ref. 8508]). •Valid as Garra persica Berg 1914 -- (Coad 1982:97 [ref. 20636], Coad 1995:17 [ref. 23608], Coad 1996:4 [ref. 23831], Coad 1996:71 [ref. 25297], Coad 1998:102 [ref. 23869], Esmaeili et al. 2010:369 [ref. 33391], Sayyadzadeh et al. 2015:78, 86 [ref. 34042], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:871 [ref. 34062], Teimori et al. 2015:90 [ref. 34095], Esmaeili et al. 2015:121 [ref. 35030] dated 1913, Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi 2016:45 [ref. 34341], Esmaeili et al. 2016:110 [ref. 34620] dated 1913, Freyhof 2016:500 [ref. 34805], Esmaeili et al. 2017:47 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:27 [ref. 36089], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2019:231 [ref. 36979], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:75 [ref. 37983], Zamani-Faradonbe et al. 2021:268 [ref. 38079], Zamani-Faradonbe et al. 2021:385 [ref. 38714], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2022:434 [ref. 39728], Çiçek et al. 2024:124 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Garra persica Berg 1914. Cyprinidae: Labeoninae. Distribution: Widespread in Iran and possibly in adjacent Pakistan. Habitat: freshwater.