A new record of the dwarf snakehead, Channa ornatipinnis Britz 2007 (Perciformes: Channidae) from India

Sivaramapillai Muthukumar; Muthukumarasamy Arunachalam; Uthandakalaipandiyan Ramesh; Murugiah Umamaheswari; Alagappan Vanarajan

doi:10.22034/ijab.v5i1.273

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Sivaramapillai Muthukumar
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Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India.
Muthukumarasamy Arunachalam Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alwarkurichi, India.
Uthandakalaipandiyan Ramesh Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India.
Murugiah Umamaheswari Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alwarkurichi, India.
Alagappan Vanarajan Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alwarkurichi, India.

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The snakehead of the family are represented 33 species from Asia of which two species Channa ornatipinnis and C. pulchra were recently described from Myanmar. The recent record of C. ornatipinnis from Tuivawl river, Tuivawl village in Champhai district, Mizoram, India is of ichthyological interest

Muthukumar, S., Arunachalam, M., Ramesh, U., Umamaheswari, M., & Vanarajan, A. (2017). A new record of the dwarf snakehead, Channa ornatipinnis Britz 2007 (Perciformes: Channidae) from India. International Journal of Aquatic Biology, 5(1), 29–32. https://doi.org/10.22034/ijab.v5i1.273

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