abstract this study carried out on 194 fish (garra rufa) during the months of january to march at eight stations in dinvar river located at kermanshah province. during this study, 34 attributes and 11 traits count was measured geometric parameters and natural mortality and total amount 0.346, infinite length l∞=124.57 mm, growth factor k=0.29 and the length and weight of the exponential functio...

in this study, by examining the character of the morphometric and meristic characters of garra variabilis samples which is obtained from different locality in tigris river, morphometric characters which are transformed, subjected to discriminant analysis and depending on grouping model, number of discriminant functions and according to importance of these in terms of explaining total variance, ...

Garra rufa is one of the most popular therapeutic and commercially important fish in ichthyotherapy. Otolith and scale morphology provide new and useful information for fish identification and classification. Left-right asteriscus and lapillus otoliths from juvenile and adult doctor fish, and the scales from 6 different regions of the juvenile and adult fish body have been examined in Kangal Ba...