Garra festai (Tortonese, 1939)
Ammiq barb, Ammiq garra
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Tylognathus festai Tortonese, 1939
Conservation Status
Possibly Extinct in the Wild (Freyho, 2026)
Last record: 2011
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution & Habitat
Ammiq Marshes, Lebanon
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Hashemzadeh Segherloo et al.2016a
References
Original scientific description:
Tortonese, E. (1939). Viaggio del dott. Enrico Festa in Palestina e in Siria (1893). Pesci. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino. (Ser. 3) 46(85): 313-358.
Other references:
Behrens-Chapuis, S., F. Herder, H.R. Esmaeili, J. Freyhof, N.A. Hamidan, M. Özuluğ, R. Šanda and M. F. Geiger. (2015). Adding nuclear rhodopsin data where mitochondrial COI indicates discrepancies - can this marker help to explain conflicts in cyprinids? DNA Barcodes 3: 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1515/dna-2015-0020
Freyhof, J. (2014). Garra festai. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T19452578A19849896. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T19452578A19849896.en. Accessed on 25 July 2026.
Freyhof, J. (2018). Garra festai (amended version of 2014 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T19452578A135918076. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T19452578A135918076.en. Accessed on 25 July 2026.
Freyhof, J. (2026). Garra festai. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2026: e.T19452578A135128728. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2026-1.RLTS.T19452578A135128728.en. Accessed on 25 July 2026.
Freyhof, Jörg, Ekmekçi, F. Güler, Ali, Atheer, Khamees, Najim R., Özuluğ, Müfit, Hamidan, Nashat, Küçük, Fahrettin and Smith, Kevin G. (2014). Freshwater Fishes, pp. 19-42. In: Smith, K. G., Barrios, V., Darwall, W. R. T. and Numa, C. (eds.). The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in the Eastern Mediterranean. Cambridge, UK, Malaga, Spain and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. xiv + 132 pp.
Freyhof, Jörg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash and Kaya, Cüneyt. (2025). Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111677811 [pp. 190]
Geiger, M., F. Herder, M.T. Manahan, V. Almada, R. Barbieri, J. Bohlen, M. Casal-Lopez, G.B. Delmastro, G.P. Denys, A. Dettai, I. Doadrio, E. Kalogianni, H. Kärst, M. Kovačić, M. Laporte, M. Özuluğ, A. Perdices, S. Perea, H. Persat, S. Porcelotti, C. Puzzi, J. Robalo, R. Šanda, M. Schneider, V. Šlechtová, M. Stoumboudi, S. Walter and J. Freyhof. (2014). Spatial heterogeneity in the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot affects barcoding accuracy of its freshwater fishes. Molecular Ecology Resources 14: 1210−1221. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12257
Hamidan, N.A., Geiger, M.F. and Freyhof, J. (2014). Garra jordanica, a new species from the Dead Sea basin with remarks on the relationship of G. ghorensis, G. tibanica and G. rufa (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 25(3): 223-236.
Hashemzadeh Segherloo, I., A. Abdoli, S. Eagderi, H.R. Esmaeili, G. Sayyadzadeh, L. Bernatchez, E. Halle, M. F. Geiger, M. Özuluğ, J. Laroche and J. Freyhof. (2016). Dressing down: convergent reduction in Garra (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in the Middle East. Hydrobiologia 785: 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2902-8
Krupp, F. (1985). Systematik und Zoogeographie der Süßwasserfische des levantinischen Grabenbruchsystems und der Ostküste des Mittelmeeres, Dissertation Doktor der Naturwissenschaften, Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz.
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/21087/garra-festai