Fish Fauna of Asan River and Its Tributaries, Western Doon Valley, Dehradun (Uttarakhand), with Conservation Status of Species and Threats - Aquatic Ecosystem: Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation - page 241

Body greyish brown with irregular punctuations
with a faint lateral stripe, dorsal and caudal fi ns
yellowish grey, other fi ns orangish.

English Names
Sucker Head, Stonefi sh.

Local Names
Bhangnera, Budna, Dhanaura, Gotyla, Gotla.

Maximum Size
12.5 cm.

Localities Surveyed
Asan River below Dhalipur Barrage, Herbertpur
and Sabhawala; Asan reservoir.
Small stream, culvert No. 28/2 at Ridapur;
Swarna nadi, Bhauwala; small stream, culvert
No. 19/2 at Selakui; pond at Sahaspur.

Distribution

Uttarakhand
Garhwal Division: Chamoli, Dehradun,
Haridwar, Pauri, Tehri and Uttarkashi districts;
Kumaon Division: Almora, Nainital and
Pithoragarh districts. Corbett Tiger Reserve and
Rajaji National Park.

Diagnostic Characters
D. 3/7-8, P. 1/16, V. 1/8, A. 3/5, C. 17. L.l. 33.
Body elongate; head depressed, snout with a
median proboscis with spiny tubercles; mouth
ventral, arched and with a mental disc; barbels
two short pairs; dorsal origin in advance of the
pelvis; scales moderate, lateral line complete.
Body greenish brown with a dusky spot behind
the gill opening and a row of dark spots along the
base of dorsal fi n, gins greyish.

India
Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur,
Mizoram, Meghalaya, Odisha (Chilka Lake;
Mahanadi drainage) and Tripura. Drainages of
Ganga and Brahmaputra in northern India.
Its occurrence south to the headwaters of
Krishna river and Western Ghats is to be
confi rmed.

Maximum Size
15.5 cm.

Elsewhere
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Iran,
Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.

Distribution

Habitat and Ecology
Inhabits streams, rivers and lakes of montane and
submontane regions with gravel and stony sub-
stratum in benthopelagic environment.

Uttarakhand
Garhwal Division: Chamoli, Dehradun, Pauri,
Tehri and Uttarkashi districts; Kumaon Division:
Almora, Nainital and Pithoragarh districts.
Corbett Tiger Reserve and Rajaji National Park.

Conservation Status
IUCN Red List, least concern.

India
All along the Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh,
Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand,
Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar
Pradesh and West Bengal (Adma, Buxa and
Jayanti rivers). Chota Nagpur plateau and the
Vindhya-Satpura mountains of the Indian
peninsula.

Remarks
Of no fi shery interest.
Genus: Garra Hamilton, 1822

21. Garra gotyla gotyla (Gray, 1830)
Garra gotyla Gray, 1830. Ill. Indian Zool ., 1, pl.
88, fi g. 3 (type locality: not mentioned).
Garra gotyla gotyla Husain, 2003 . Faun. Asan
Wetland, Wetland Ecosystem Series 5 : 23-26
(Asan reservoir).

Elsewhere
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar,
Nepal and Pakistan.