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With ca. 170 species (Fricke et al., 2019), Garra is one of the most diverse genera of fishes in the world. The genus ranges from western Africa to China, north to Turkey and Afghanistan, and south to Borneo. Most species of Garra live in fast-flowing, upland streams (Zhang & Chen, 2002), and many of the species are confined to small geographic areas; eg Kullander & Fang (2004) documented the presence of seven species in Rakhine State, Myanmar, none of which is known to occur elsewhere, and Tamang et al.(2019) reported 18 species in the Brahmaputra River drainage of Arunachal Pradesh State in northeastern India.