Channa aurolineata
C. aurolineata in Broward County, FL, US
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anabantiformes
Family: Channidae
Genus: Channa
Species:
C. aurolineata
Binomial name
Channa aurolineata
F. Day, 1870

Channa aurolineata is a species of Asian snakehead in the family Channidae. It is found natively in most of Myanmar's waterways as well as the Mae Khlong drainage in Thailand.[1] There is also an invasive population found in Southeast Florida, United States.[1] This species was recently split from C. marulius, the bullseye snakehead, and confirmed as a separate species in 2018;[2] and the Florida and Thailand populations were not discovered to be C. aurolineata until even more recently in 2019.[1] Before this, the Thailand population's species was unknown and the Florida ones were assumed to be C. marulius.[1] C. aurolineata was able to be separated as a new species and identified in other areas due to slight differences in color pattern, lateral line scale and fin ray morphology, and DNA structure from the other species in the marulius complex.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Adamson, Eleanor A. S.; Britz, Ralf (2019). "The Mae Khlong Basin as the potential origin of Florida's feral bullseye snakehead fish (Pisces: Channidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 67: 403411. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2019-0032. ISSN 0217-2445.
  2. ↑ ADAMSON, ELEANOR A. S.; BRITZ, RALF (2018-11-09). "The snakehead fish Channa aurolineata is a valid species (Teleostei: Channidae) distinct from Channa marulius". Zootaxa. 4514 (4): 542. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4514.4.7. ISSN 1175-5334.


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