Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Kalakad Stone Carp (Garra kalakadensis), recorded as Endangered
Kalakad Stone Carp (Garra kalakadensis). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Kalakad Stone Carp

Garra kalakadensis

Kalakad Stone Carp is a cyprinid fish in the genus Garra that is endemic to the Western Ghats in India.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Garra kalakadensis
Recorded from
India
Taxonomy
Cypriniformes · Cyprinidae · Garra

The minnow

Minnows and barbs are ray-finned freshwater fishes without teeth in the jaws; they grind food with pharyngeal teeth.

Carps, minnows, and loaches. They lack jaw teeth and live in freshwater.

Range and habitat

Kalakad Stone Carp is a cyprinid fish in the genus Garra that is endemic to the Western Ghats in India.

It is described from Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Preserve.

GBIF currently lists 1 occurrence point. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

Kalakad Stone Carp is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Garra kalakadensis — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q1100418 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Kalakad Stone Carp?
Kalakad Stone Carp is a minnow in the family Cyprinidae (order Cypriniformes) — Garra kalakadensis.
What is the conservation status of Kalakad Stone Carp?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Garra kalakadensis. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Kalakad Stone Carp live?
Kalakad Stone Carp is a cyprinid fish in the genus Garra that is endemic to the Western Ghats in India.
Why is Kalakad Stone Carp in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Garra kalakadensis?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Kalakad Stone Carp a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.