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Channa  Scopoli, 1777
Taxonomic Serial No.: 166662

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Bostrychoides Lacepède, 1801
  
    Ophicephalus Bloch, 1793
  
    Philypnoides Bleeker, 1849
  
    Psiloides Fischer, 1813
  
    Pterops Rafinesque, 1815
  
  Common Name(s): Asian snakeheads [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2022   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderAcanthopterygii   
                            OrderPerciformes  – perch-like fishes  
                               SuborderChannoidei   
                                  FamilyChannidae Fowler, 1934 – snakeheads, cabezas de serpiente, têtes-de-serpent  
                                     GenusChanna Scopoli, 1777 – Asian snakeheads  
    Direct Children:  
                                        SpeciesChanna amphibeus (McClelland, 1845) – Chel snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna andrao Britz, 2013  
                                        SpeciesChanna ara (Deraniyagala, 1945) – Sri Lanka giant snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna argus (Cantor, 1842) – Snakehead, Northern Snakehead, Poisson tête de serpent, Cabeza de serpiente 
                                        SpeciesChanna aristonei Praveenraj, Thackeray, Singh, Uma, Moulitharan and Mukhim, 2020  
                                        SpeciesChanna asiatica (Linnaeus, 1758) – Small snakehead, Chinese snakehead, Chinafish, snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna aurantimaculata Musikasinthorn, 2000 – orangespotted snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna aurantipectoralis Lalhlimpuia, Lalronunga and Lalramliana, 2016  
                                        SpeciesChanna auroflammea Adamson, Britz and Lieng, 2019  
                                        SpeciesChanna aurolineata (Day, 1870)  
                                        SpeciesChanna bankanensis (Bleeker, 1853) – Bangka snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna baramensis (Steindachner, 1901) – Baram snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna barca (Hamilton, 1822) – Barca snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna bipuli Praveenraj, Uma, Moulitharan and Bleher, 2018  
                                        SpeciesChanna bleheri Vierke, 1991 – rainbow snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna brahmacharyi Chakraborty, Yardi and Mukherjee, 2020  
                                        SpeciesChanna brunnea Praveenraj, Uma, Moulitharan and Kannan, 2019  
                                        SpeciesChanna burmanica Chaudhuri, 1919 – Burmese snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna cocnhayia Nguyen, Bui and Nguyen, 2015  
                                        SpeciesChanna cyanospilos (Bleeker, 1853) – bluespotted snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna diplogramma (Day, 1865)  
                                        SpeciesChanna gachua (Hamilton, 1822) – dwarf snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna harcourtbutleri (Annandale, 1918) – Inle snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna hoaluensis Nguyen, 2011  
                                        SpeciesChanna kelaartii (Günther, 1861) – brown snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna limbata (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1831)  
                                        SpeciesChanna lipor Praveenraj, Uma, Moulitharan and Singh, 2019  
                                        SpeciesChanna lucius (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1831) – splendid snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna maculata (Lacepède, 1801) – Blotched snakehead, snakehead mullet 
                                        SpeciesChanna marulioides (Bleeker, 1851) – emperor snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna marulius (Hamilton, 1822) – giant snakehead, Great snakehead, Bullseye Snakehead, murrel 
                                        SpeciesChanna melanoptera (Bleeker, 1855) – blackfinned snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna melanostigma Geetakumari and Vishwanath, 2011  
                                        SpeciesChanna melasoma (Bleeker, 1851) – black snakehead, manu 
                                        SpeciesChanna micropeltes (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1831) – Indonesian snakehead, Tête de serpent d'Indonésie, Cabeza de serpiente rojo, giant snakehead, red snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna ninhbinhensis Nguyen, 2011  
                                        SpeciesChanna nox Zhang, Musikasinthorn and Watanabe, 2002 – night snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna orientalis Bloch and Schneider, 1801 – Sri Lanka smooth-breasted snakefish, Ceylon snakehead, smooth-breasted snakefish 
                                        SpeciesChanna ornatipinnis Britz, 2008  
                                        SpeciesChanna panaw Musikasinthorn, 1998 – panaw snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna pardalis Knight, 2016  
                                        SpeciesChanna pleurophthalma (Bleeker, 1851) – ocellated snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna pomanensis Gurumayum and Tamang, 2016  
                                        SpeciesChanna pseudomarulius (Günther, 1861)  
                                        SpeciesChanna pulchra Britz, 2008  
                                        SpeciesChanna punctata (Bloch, 1793) – spotted snakehead, Tête de serpent tachetée, Cabeza de serpiente moteada, green snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna quinquefasciata Praveenraj, Uma, Knight, Moulitharan, Balasubramanian, Bineesh and Bleher, 2018  
                                        SpeciesChanna rara Britz, Dahanukar, Anoop and Ali, 2019  
                                        SpeciesChanna shingon Endruweit, 2017  
                                        SpeciesChanna stewartii (Playfair, 1867) – golden snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna stiktos Lalramliana, Knight, Lalhlimpuia and Singh, 2018  
                                        SpeciesChanna striata (Bloch, 1793) – murrel, Tête de serpent strié, Cabeza de serpiente cabrío, dalag, Chevron snakehead, striped snakehead 
                                        SpeciesChanna torsaensis Dey, Nur, Chowdhury, Sarkar, Kosygin and Barat, 2019 – Cobalt Blue Channa 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Wayne C. Starnes   
  Notes: Research Curator of Fishes, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Laboratory, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC, 27607, USA   
  Reference for: Channa    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004, website (version 10-May-04)  
  Acquired: 2004   
  Notes: http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/   
  Reference for: Channa   
       
  Source: Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes, 02-May-2022, website (version 02-May-22)  
  Acquired: 2022   
  Notes: Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (eds) 2022. ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: GENERA, SPECIES, REFERENCES. (https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp). Electronic version accessed 05 May 2022   
  Reference for: Channa   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Channa   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Eschmeyer, William N.   
  Publication Date: 1990   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Genera of Recent Fishes   
  Page(s): iii + 697   
  Publisher: California Academy of Sciences   
  Publication Place: San Francisco, CA, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-940228-23-8   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Channa   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.   
  Publication Date: 1994   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the World, Third Edition   
  Page(s): xvii + 600   
  Publisher: John Wiley and Sons   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-471-54713-1   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Channa   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Scopoli, J. A.   
  Publication Date: 1777   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae   
  Page(s): x + 506   
  Publisher: Wolfgange Gerle   
  Publication Place: Prague   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes: Available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11268990   
  Reference for: original description   
       

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