Garra phillipsi Deraniyagala, 1933
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
Phillips's garra (Garra phillipsi) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found only in Sri Lanka, where it is restricted to a single stream on the Moussakele tea estate, near Gammaduwa in the Upper Knuckles mountain range at altitudes between 1,036 and 1,066 m (3,400 and 3,500 ft) ASL.
It is named in honour of Maj. William Watt Addison Phillips (1892–1981), British tea and rubber planter and amateur naturalist, who collected the holotype.
Wikipedia contributors, Phillips's garra; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T22:35:04.977373+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Garra phillipsi Deraniyagala, 1933
- Name authority
- Deraniyagala, 1933
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Garra
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderCypriniformes
- familyCyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815
- subfamilyLabeoninae Bleeker, 1859
- genusGarra Hamilton, 1822
- speciesGarra phillipsi Deraniyagala, 1933
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Garra. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Garra abhoyai Hora, 1921 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra aethiopica (Pellegrin, 1927) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra allostoma Roberts, 1990 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra alticaputus Arunachalam, Nandagopal & Mayden, 2013 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra annandalei Hora, 1921 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra bispinosa Zhang, 2005 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra blanfordii (Boulenger, 1901) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra cambodgiensis (Tirant, 1883) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra ceylonensis Bleeker, 1863 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra chaudhurii Hora, 1921 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra compressus Kosygin & Vishwanath, 1998 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garra congoensis Poll, 1959 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Garra ceylonensis phillipsi Deraniyagala, 1933 Deraniyagala, 1933 | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1933). A new mountain-stream fish. Spolia Zeylanica (the Ceylon Journal of Science, Section B.--Zoology & Geology), 17 (pt 3): 227–229. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3FBLT. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.