hi guys this is the latest pickup for my snakehead community , i will get some better pics tomorrow once he has settled in , but at the moment everyone is playing nice , just jope things stay that way lol
todays addition to the channa com
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channarox , to be honest i am waiting for a possative i.d from snakeheads.org , the guy at the lfs (who is very realiable ) assures me it came with a african order , however looking at him he looks like either a part of the marulioides or marulius complex . to be honest he seems for to mellow to be a marulius he also lacks any spot on the tail fin , but does have the dark line through the eye like marulius , so if anyone is 100% shure please feel free to post
channarox , to be honest i am waiting for a possative i.d from snakeheads.org , the guy at the lfs (who is very realiable ) assures me it came with a african order , however looking at him he looks like either a part of the marulioides or marulius complex . to be honest he seems for to mellow to be a marulius he also lacks any spot on the tail fin , but does have the dark line through the eye like marulius , so if anyone is 100% shure please feel free to post
that is what i though also , just was not 100% if marulius or marulioides but was edgeing towards marulius sp , unfortunatly with it turning up in a african shipment i cannot know where it actually comes from , and how it turned up with an african shipment i will never know , anyway hopefully someone will be able to pin it down for me
at the moment it looks like it is Channa melanopterus Often confused with Channa marulius yet more closley related to channa marulioides
No patch of scales on gular region of head. Dorsal fin rays 44-48; anal fin rays 28-32. Lateral line scales 54-57; predorsal scales 13-15. Lateral line curves downward at lateral line scales 16-18. Preopercular scales 5-8. Unfortunately, these characters are about equal to those of Channa marulioides. Lee and Ng (1994) stated that the only way to separate these two species is by coloration. Channa marulioides possesses an ocellated spot on the upper part of the caudal fin base, similar to that in C. marulius, and C. melanopterus lacks this ocellus. There are also differences in coloration of live individuals (Lee and Ng, 1994). Channa marulioides also differs from C. melanopterus in that the former often (but not always) possesses several patches of dark scales rimmed by white margins along the sides of the body (Lee and Ng, 1994).
No patch of scales on gular region of head. Dorsal fin rays 44-48; anal fin rays 28-32. Lateral line scales 54-57; predorsal scales 13-15. Lateral line curves downward at lateral line scales 16-18. Preopercular scales 5-8. Unfortunately, these characters are about equal to those of Channa marulioides. Lee and Ng (1994) stated that the only way to separate these two species is by coloration. Channa marulioides possesses an ocellated spot on the upper part of the caudal fin base, similar to that in C. marulius, and C. melanopterus lacks this ocellus. There are also differences in coloration of live individuals (Lee and Ng, 1994). Channa marulioides also differs from C. melanopterus in that the former often (but not always) possesses several patches of dark scales rimmed by white margins along the sides of the body (Lee and Ng, 1994).
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