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Garra trewavasai

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ1100584 ↗
Source-derived summary

Garra trewavasai is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Garra.

The specific name of this fish honours the British ichthyologist Ethelwynn Trewavas (1900-1993).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Garra trewavasai” is species of fish. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Garra, trewavasai and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Garra, trewavasai and species is the immediate research focus.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1100584. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1900 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Garra trewavasai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.