Channa

Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Channoidei |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Channidae
Genus: Channa
Species:
C. amphibeus –
C. andrao –
C. argus –
C. asiatica –
C. aurantimaculata –
C. aurantipectoralis –
C. auroflammea –
C. bankanensis –
C. baramensis –
C. barca –
C. bleheri –
C. brunnea –
C. burmanica –
C. centrala –
C. coccinea –
C. cyanospilos –
C. diplogramma –
C. gachua –
C. harcourtbutleri –
C. hoaluensis –
C. longistomata –
C. lucius –
C. maculata –
C. marulius –
C. marulioides –
C. melanoptera –
C. melasoma –
C. micropeltes –
C. ninhbinhensis –
C. nox –
C. orientalis –
C. ornatipinnis –
C. panaw –
C. pardalis –
C. pleurophthalma –
C. pseudomarulius –
C. pulchra –
C. punctata –
C. pyrophthalmus –
C. quangtriensis –
C. rakhinica –
C. rubora –
C. stewartii –
C. striata
Name
[edit]Channa Scopoli (ex Gronow), 1777
Gender: feminine
Type species: Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Synonymy
[edit]- Channa Gronow, 1763 (nomen nudum, junior homonym of Channa Scopoli, 1777).
- Ophicephalus Bloch, 1793. Spelled also as Ophiocephalus (misspelled version).
- Bostrychoides Lacepède, 1801. Originally spelled Bostrychoïdes.
- Psiloides Fischer, 1813 (unnecessary replacement name for Bostrychoides Lacepède, 1801).
- Pterops Rafinesque, 1815 (unnecessary replacement name for Bostrychoides Lacepède, 1801).
- Philypnoides Bleeker, 1849.
References
[edit]- Scopoli, I.A. 1777. Introductio ad historiam naturalem sistens genera lapidum, plantarum, et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. 540 pp. Apud Wolfgangum Gerle, Pragae [Prague]. BHL Reference page. [see page 459: BHL]
- Adamson, E.A.S. & Britz, R. 2018. The snakehead fish Channa aurolineata is a valid species (Teleostei: Channidae) distinct from Channa marulius. Zootaxa 4514(4): 542–552. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.4.7
Reference page.
- Adamson, E.A.S., Britz, R. & Lieng, S. 2019. Channa auroflammea, a new species of snakehead fish of the Marulius group from the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia (Teleostei: Channidae). Zootaxa 4571(3): 398–408. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.7
Reference page.
- Bloch, M.E. & Schneider, J.G. 1801. M.E. Blochii, Systema ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum. i–lx + 1–584, Pls. 1–110. BHL Reference page. [see pp. 496-497: BHL].
- Britz, R., Adamson, E., Raghavan, R., Ali, A. & Dahanukar, N. 2017. Channa pseudomarulius, a valid species of snakehead from the Western Ghats region of peninsular India (Teleostei: Channidae), with comments on Ophicephalus grandinosus, O. theophrasti and O. leucopunctatus. Zootaxa 4299(4): 529–545. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.4.4. Reference page.
- Britz, R., Tan, H.H. & Rüber, L. 2024. Four new species of Channa from Myanmar (Teleostei, Labyrinthici, Channidae). Raffles bulletin of Zoology 72: 1–25. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0001.
. Reference page.
- Britz, R. 2013: Channa andrao, a new species of dwarf snakehead from West Bengal, India (Teleostei:Channidae). Zootaxa 3731(2): 287–294. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.2.9 Reference page.
- Gronow, L.T. 1763. Zoophylacii Gronoviani fasciculus primus exhibens animalia quadrupeda, amphibia atque pisces, quae in museo suo adservat, rite examinavit, systematice disposuit, descripsit atque iconibus illustravit Laur. Theod. Gronovius, J.U.D.... Lugduni Batavorum. 1-136, Pls. 1-13, 8a. [see page 135: BHL]
- Kottelat, M. 2013. The fishes of the inland waters of southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibiography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 27: 1–663. PDF. Reference page. [see page 459]
- Lalhlimpuia, D.V., Lalronunga, S. & Lalramliana, L. 2016. Channa aurantipectoralis, a new species of snakehead from Mizoram, north-eastern India (Teleostei: Channidae). Zootaxa 4147(3): 343–350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.3.7 Reference page.
- Praveenraj, J., Uma, A., Moulitharan, N. & Kannan, R. 2019. Channa brunnea, a new species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from West Bengal, India. Zootaxa 4624(1): 059–070. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.1.4. Reference page.
- Roberts, T.R. 1989. The freshwater fishes of western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia). Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 14: i–xii + 1–210. Reference page. [see page 169: BHL]
- Sudasinghe, H., Adamson, E.A.S., Ranasinghe, R.H.T., Meegaskumbura, M., Ikbe, C. & Britz, R. 2020. Unexpected species diversity within Sri Lanka’s snakehead fishes of the Channa marulius group (Teleostei: Channidae). Zootaxa 4747(1): 113–132. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.4
Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Channa and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on February 25, 2025.
- Channa species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Vernacular names
[edit]eesti: Madupea
Nederlands: slangenkopvissen
தமிழ்: விலாங்கு
українська: Змієголови