Channa aurolineata is a species of Asian snakehead in the family Channidae. It is found natively in most of Myanmar's waterways as well as the Mae Khlong drainage in Thailand.[1] There is also an invasive population found in Southeast Florida, United States.[1] This species was recently split from C. marulius, the bullseye snakehead, and confirmed as a separate species in 2018;[2] and the Florida and Thailand populations were not discovered to be C. aurolineata until even more recently in 2019.[1] Before this, the Thailand population's species was unknown and the Florida ones were assumed to be C. marulius.[1] C. aurolineata was able to be separated as a new species and identified in other areas due to slight differences in color pattern, lateral line scale and fin ray morphology, and DNA structure from the other species in the marulius complex.[1]
| Channa aurolineata | |
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| C. aurolineata in Broward County, FL, US | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anabantiformes |
| Family: | Channidae |
| Genus: | Channa |
| Species: | C. aurolineata
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| Binomial name | |
| Channa aurolineata F. Day, 1870
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There is no record of what the average lifespan of C. aurolineata is. On March 18, 2024, Pata Zoo in Thailand announced to permanently stop exhibiting C. aurolineata that the zoo has raised named Pi-lim (Thai: พี่หลิม) because it is old, has cloudy eyes, and refuses to eat food. The zoo has raised him for 20 years.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Adamson, Eleanor A. S.; Britz, Ralf (2019). "The Mae Khlong Basin as the potential origin of Florida's feral bullseye snakehead fish (Pisces: Channidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 67: 403411. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2019-0032. ISSN 0217-2445.
- ^ ADAMSON, ELEANOR A. S.; BRITZ, RALF (2018-11-09). "The snakehead fish Channa aurolineata is a valid species (Teleostei: Channidae) distinct from Channa marulius". Zootaxa. 4514 (4): 542–552. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4514.4.7. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30486194.
- ^ "สวนสัตว์พาต้า ประกาศอำลา "พี่หลิม" ปลาช่อนงูเห่า หลังอยู่มานานกว่า 20 ปี" [Pata Zoo announces farewell to "Pi-lim" the cobra snakehead fish after staying for more than 20 years]. Thairath (in Thai). 2024-03-18. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
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