Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin (ISSN 0178 – 6288) . Number 103, July 2013, pp. 1-25.

9 Habitat Found in different habitats such as rivers, lakes, small ponds, and small muddy streams. Hides under and among stones and vegetation. Bottom dweller, feeding on aufwuchs. The newly discovered Palestine Doctor Fish subspecies Garra rufa wadiqana Khalaf, 2013 at Ain Al Basa Spring, Wadi Qana Nature Reserve, Salfit Governorate, State of Palestine. Photo by: Ola Mostafa Khalaf. 08.07.2013. http://www.flickr.com/photos/50022881@N00/9505806433/ Distribution The species Garra rufa lives in the Jordan, Ceyhan, Orontes, and Tigris-Euphrates river basins. Also in some coastal rivers in southern Turkey and northern Syria and coastal drainages of the eastern Mediterranean as well as some springs and pools in Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Iran. The Palestinian subspecies Garra rufa wadiqana Khalaf, 2013 is endemic to Wadi Qana Nature Reserve, Salfit Governorate, State of Palestine. Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 103 – July 2013

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