Need ID

[deangelo]

the faint lines make me think stewartii (broken lines)??

i thought that too but i saw that it had no ventral fin...

 

[jjdsplace]

looks a little like a Channa striata

 

[danny]

i thought that too but i saw that it had no ventral fin...

ok how about a realy stressed bleheri ? it looks like one but with out the coluor

 

[Siciliano]

Hi,


it is or a Type of gachua (there are many types) or an orientalis and when i look at the pics i can't see any pelvic fins... so Orientalis.
No striata(diff. head shape fin color etc), No Asiatica ( total another coloration!!pelvic fins) and no stewartii (diffrent color, no orange on fins on these)


Gaetano

 

[danny]

not asiatica,,, no eye spot

 

[deangelo]

looks like an orientalis or green snakehead...i see a little shade of green in the last picture...

 

[stotty]

Looks like orientalis to me the way to tell is Channa orientalis has no ventral fins

you can also use this if its orientalis


Characters: Gular part of head without patch of scales. Pelvic fins absent. Predorsal scales 6-7; scales from posterior border of orbit to posterior edge of preopercle 5-6. Lateral line scales 36-42. Anal fin rays 20-22; dorsal fin rays 30-34. Pectoral fins with 13-15 rays. Ocellated spot at posterior end of dorsal fin, above caudal peduncle, in juveniles and females. Lower jaw with 10-20 canines behind single row of villiform teeth, the latter expanding to about 7 rows at jaw symphysis; prevomer and palatines with caninelike teeth.