Book Fauna Palaestina 4 Year 2014 By Prof Dr Norman Ali Bassam Khalaf von Jaffa ISBN 978-9950-383-77-7

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
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