- Channa aurantimaculata
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Orange spotted snakehead Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Channidae Genus: Channa Species: C. aurantimaculata Binomial name Channa aurantimaculata
Musikasinthorn, 2000Channa aurantimaculata (common name orange-spotted snakehead) is a species of snakehead. Its body is of brownish colour intermixed with vertical orange stripes. Its type locality is Dibrugarh, the most north-eastern area of Assam, India. Dibrughar is the same type locality as that of Channa bleheri
This species grows to 16 inches (40 cm). Very probably it is a mouthbrooder as the most of the smaller snakeheads. One report is known from a German aquarist that a couple of his fish had bred.
References
- "Channa aurantimaculata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=642745. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
External links
- Musikasinthorn, Prachya (2000). "Channa aurantimaculata, a new channid fish from Assam (Brahmaputra River basin), India, with designation of a neotype for C. amphibeus (McClelland, 1845)". Ichthyological Research 47 (1): 27–29. doi:10.1007/BF02674310. http://www.snakeheads.org:8180/db/GetArticle?articleID=120.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Channa aurantimaculata" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
- snakeheads.org- the comprehensive website for all aspects of snakeheads
Categories:- Channidae
- Animals described in 2000
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