Channa pomanensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Channoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Anabantaria Ordo: Anabantiformes Subordo: Channoidei

Familia: Channidae
Genus: Channa
Species: Channa pomanensis

Name

Channa pomanensis Gurumayum & Tamang, 2016

• Holotype: ZSI/APRC P-1066.
• Paratypes: ZSI/APRC P-1308 (4), ZSI/APRC P-1309 (2).

Type locality: Poma River at Poma (Brahmaputra basin) about 10 km west to capital town, Itanagar, Papum Pare district, Arunachal Pradesh, India, 27°3'33.85"N, 93°30'32.00"E, elevation 240 meters.

Etymology: Named after the Poma River from where the species was collected, Papum Pare district, Arunachal Pradesh.

Synonymy

• Channa brahmacharyi Chakraborty, Yardi & Mukherjee, 2020

References

• Gurumayam, S.D. & Tamang, L., 2016. Channa pomanensis, a new species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Species v. 17 (no. 57): 175-186.
• Praveenraj, J., Moulitharan, N., Pavan-Kumar, A., Naveen, R.S., Thackeray, T., Yumnam R. & Gurumayum S.D. 2025. Channa nachi, a new species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from Meghalaya, northeast India. Zootaxa 5613 (no. 2): 337-350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.8

Links

• Channa pomanensis in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2026. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.