Channa aurantimaculata

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

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.

References

• "Channa aurantimaculata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=642745. Retrieved 18 April 2006. 

External links

• 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. doi:10.1007/BF02674310. http://www.snakeheads.org:8180/db/GetArticle?articleID=120. 
• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Channa aurantimaculata" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
• snakeheads.org- the comprehensive website for all aspects of snakeheads