Dr Britz did it !!!

[Brucki]

Yeah !!!!

Dr. Britz has finished his work on the scientifically description of a well known dwarf channa beauty !

Channa andrao

The name is dedicatet to Mr Andrew Rao, a very enthousiastic Channa exporter from india.

Here is the paper by Dr. Britz :
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/z03731p294f.pdf

Cheers Brucki

PS: Now we all can use the correct name Channa andrao instead of Channa sp "Assam" / Channa sp. "lal cheng" / Channa sp. "blue bleheri" / Channa sp. "asian blue"

 

[-DC-]

Good read, about time someone finally "discovered" this species. I'd be interested in seeing pic's of the other 2 newly discovered species he mentions as well any idea on where i could see some ??

 

[BuffaloPolypteridae]

This kind of stuff makes me want to move to Canada almost exclusively so I can keep snakeheads haha, great read

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[bottles]

That's good news. It's about time
Thanks for sharing.

 

[scharoel]

Good work Dr Britz and congratulation to Mr Andrew.

 

[satyajit82]

The new species....congrats Mr Andrew Rao