Phillips's garra

Phillips's garra (Garra phillipsi) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found only in Sri Lanka, where it is restricted to a single stream on the Moussakele tea estate, near Gammaduwa in the Upper Knuckles mountain range at altitudes between 1,036 and 1,066 m (3,400 and 3,500 ft) ASL.^[1]

Phillips's garra
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Labeoninae
Genus:	Garra
Species:	G. phillipsi
Binomial name
Garra phillipsi Deraniyagala, 1933

It is named in honour of Maj. William Watt Addison Phillips MBE (1892–1981), British tea and rubber planter and amateur naturalist, who collected the holotype.^[2]