Garra kemali is a species of cyprinid fish, which is found only in Turkey, in and freshwater . It is threatened by a habitat loss.[Behrens-Chapuis, S., Herder, F., Esmaeili, H.R., Freyhof, J., Hamidan, N.A., Özuluğ, M., Šanda, R. & Geiger, M.F. (2015): Adding nuclear rhodopsin data where mitochondrial COI indicates discrepancies – can this marker help to explain conflicts in cyprinids? DNA Barcodes, 3 (1): 187-199.]
Previously considered as Hemigrammocapoeta kemali, molecular data have indicated that the species should belong to the genus Garra.[
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