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| status_system = IUCN3.1
| name =
| status = EN
| status_ref = <ref name = iucn>{{cite journal | author = Ali, A. | year = 2011 | title = ''Garra hughi'' | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | page = 2011: e.T169624A6656941 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T169624A6656941.en}}</ref>
| taxon = Garra hughi
| display_parents = 3
| authority = [[Eric Godwin Silas|Silas]], 1955<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/6929/1/059-RECORDS_OF_INDIAN_MUSEUM_1953.pdf|format=PDF|title=Records of the Indian Museum|website=Eprints.cmfri.org.in|accessdate=2016-06-11}}</ref>
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'''''Garra hughi''''' ('''cardamon garra''') is an endangered species of [[ray-finned fish]] in the genus ''[[Garra]]''. It occurs in high mountain streams of the Southern Western Ghats, from the Anamalai Hills,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zoosprint.org/ZooPrintJournal/2005/March/1809-1811.pdf |title=Remadevi fish fauna of the Anamalai.pmd|website=Zoosprint.org |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2016-06-11}}</ref> south to the Agasthyamala Hills.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://threatenedtaxa.org/ZooPrintJournal/2011/March/o252826iii111585-1593.pdf|format=PDF|title=Freshwater fish fauna of the Ashambu Hills landscape, southern Western Ghats, India, with notes on some range extensions|website=Threatenedtaxa.org|accessdate=2016-06-11}}</ref> The species is a benthopelagic fish, found in mountain streams.

The juveniles are free swimmers and are found in more cleaner waters closer to the banks and in pools and puddles along the course of the stream. The juveniles have an omnivorous diet including earthworms, aquatic insects, mostly larvae of chironomids and ephemeropterans and bits of filamentous algae and detritus, which is different from that of the adult. The adult fish takes to feeding on vegetable matter (mainly algae) with a change in its mode of living, to life close to the substratum of the rapid waters of the streams.<ref name = iucn/> A lot of the habitat of G. hughi is threatened primarily by habitat degradation.

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[[Category:Garra]]
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