The only other cave fish in the Arabian Peninsula is the Tawi Atair garra (G. dunsirei), but it has normal eyes.

This fish is a fairly dark colour and is speckled; it has a paler transverse band just behind the head.

This fish typically lives in wadis, in gravel or rock pools, in springs, in small streams and in slow-moving water.

The blind form is only known from the Hoti cave systems in the Al Hamra region of the Jebel Akhdar Mountains in Oman.

Examination of the stomach contents of one individual showed that it had consumed both single-celled and filamentous algae, rotifers, nematodes and small crustaceans.