Channa aurantimaculata
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Channa aurantimaculata, is an endemic species of snakehead. Its body is of brownish colour intermixed with vertical orange stripes. Its type locality is Dibrughar, 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 breed.
[edit] References
- Channa aurantimaculata (TSN 642745). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 18 April 2006.
[edit] External links
Wikispecies has information related to:
- 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.
- "Channa aurantimaculata". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
- snakeheads.org- the comprehensive website for all aspects of snakeheads
