Garra vittatula Kullander & Fang 2004

Diagnosis: A small species of Garra with smoothly rounded snout tip, rostral lobe present, proboscis absent, predorsal region, chest and abdomen scaled, two pairs of barbels, lateral line scales 31, circumpeduncular scales 16.

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 7; Vertebrae: 27

Known from two small streams on the western slope of the Rakhine Yoma, draining to the Bay of Bengal. The type locality, Yan Khaw Chaung, was a small forest river reduced to a series of connecting pools with a combined width of 2 meters, and not more than 1 meter deep, with slow flowing or standing water. The water clear and colorless; the bed made up of pebbles, gravel and rocks. The stream is lined with shrub and forest, but no aquatic vegetation. The second locality, Kanamae Chaung with slight current and the stream reduced to a series of small pools (Ref. 52314).

This species can be a potential aquarium fish (Fang, 2004, pers. comm.)

fisheries: of no interest; aquarium: potential

Garra vittatula is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Garra from Myanmar.