Eochanna

Taxobox
name = "Eochanna chorlakkiensis"
fossil_range=Middle Eocene


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Northern snakehead, "Channa argus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Channidae
genus="Eochanna"
genus_authority=Roe, 1991
species="E. chorlakkiensis"
binomial="Eochanna chorlakkiensis"
binomial_authority=Roe, 1991

"Eochanna chorlakkiensis" is an extinct prehistoric snakehead belonging to the single-species genus "Eochanna". The fish thrived in the Middle Eocene (40-48 million years ago).

References

*http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1671%2F0272-4634(2008)28 [41%3AEAFFPW] 2.0.CO%3B2&ct=1&SESSID=fc976bfedf58bc5181d1fd352f0a910b Eocene Actinopterygian Fishes from Pakistan, with the Description of a New Genus and Species of Channid (Channiformes)