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Channa striata, the striped snakehead, is a species of snakehead fish. It is also known as the common snakehead, chevron snakehead, or snakehead murrel and generally referred simply as mudfish. It is native to South and Southeast Asia, and has been introduced to some Pacific Islands.
The bowfin (Amia calva) is a ray-finned fish native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique.It is regarded as a relict, being one of only two surviving species of the Halecomorphi, a group of fish that first appeared during the Early Triassic, around 250 million years ago.
Channa or snakehead, a genus of predatory fish in Asia; Channa striata, a species of snakehead fish in Asia; Clarias anguillaris, African airbreathing catfish; Misgurnus, a genus of true loaches found in Europe and Asia; Orange River mudfish (Labeo capensis), southern Africa; Parachanna, a genus of snakeheads in tropical Africa
As F. mudfish this species was designated the type species of Fundulus when Lacépède created the genus in 1803. [6] The name mummichog is derived from a Narragansett term meaning "going in crowds", which reflects the mummichog's strong shoaling tendency. [7]
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
The Canterbury mudfish (Neochanna burrowsius), also known as the kowaro, is found only on the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand. [3] Like other Neochanna species, it is a small, tubular and flexible fish which lacks scales. They are able to survive out of water in damp refuges if its wetland habitat dries out periodically over summer.
Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Channa micropeltes in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [2]. Channa micropeltes, giant snakehead, giant mudfish or toman harimau, is among the largest species in the family Channidae, capable of growing to 1.3 m (4.3 ft) in length and a weight of 20 kg (44 lb). [3]
Other common names include Australian mudfish, [4] mud trout, [3] and mud galaxias. [3] Other scientific names include: Galaxias cleaveri, [2] [3] Saxilaga cleaveri, [3] Saxilaga anguilliforms, [3] and Galaxias upcheri. [3] The genus Neochanna is derived from the Greek neos meaning new and Channa, an Asian genus of aestivating fishes. [4]