| Orange spotted snakehead | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Channidae |
| Genus: | Channa |
| Species: | C. aurantimaculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Channa aurantimaculata Musikasinthorn, 2000 |
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Channa 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.