Channa marulius

Channa marulius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anabantiformes
Family: Channidae
Genus: Channa
Species:
C. marulius
Binomial name
Channa marulius
(F. Hamilton, 1822)
Synonyms[2]
  • Ophicephalus marulius Hamilton, 1822
  • Ophicephalus grandinosus Cuvier, 1831
  • Ophiocephalus grandinosus Cuvier, 1831
  • Ophicephalus sowara Cuvier, 1831
  • Ophicephalus leucopunctatus Sykes, 1839
  • Ophiocephalus theophrasti Valenciennes, 1840
  • Ophiocephalus aurolineatus Day, 1870

Channa marulius, the bullseye snakehead or great snakehead, is a large species of snakehead native to South Asia.[2] Populations in Southeast Asia are now regarded as separate species.[3][4]

  1. ^ Chaudhry, S. (2010). "Channa marulius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T172328A6868796. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T172328A6868796.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Channa marulius". FishBase. January 2006 version.
  3. ^ Adamson, E. A. S. and R. Britz (2018). The snakehead fish Channa aurolineata is a valid species (Teleostei: Channidae) distinct from Channa marulius. Zootaxa 4514 (4): 542–552.
  4. ^ Adamson, E.A.S., R. Britz and S. Lieng (2019). Channa auroflammea, a new species of snakehead fish of the Marulius group from the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia (Teleostei: Channidae). Zootaxa 4571(3): 398–408.