FB-70606 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70606 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae Sphoeroides Sphoeroides camila Carvalho-Filho, Rotundo, Pitassy & Sazima, 2023 2024-06-05 2024-06-05 Beolens, B., M. Grayson and M. Watkins0 Eponym dictionary of Fishes. Dunbeath, Caithness (Scotland, UK): Whittles Publishing Limited, 1300 p. (Ref. 128868) Praveenraj, J., T. Thackeray, S.G. Singh, A. Uma, N. Moulitharan and B.K. Mukhim0 A new species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, northeastern India. Copeia 108(4):938-947. (Ref. 131046) FB-GeneralDescr-70615 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-06-07 00:00:00 2024-06-07 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70615 Known from the streams at Puriang, East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, where the habitat is a clear, slow-flowing hill stream, having rocky substrate, and Eriocaulon sp. as the only aquatic vegetation. Water temperature is18C at the time of survey. .Associated species in the habitat were C. lipor, Danio meghalayensis, and Tor sp. The species is shy in nature, hides in crevices among the submerged rocky boulders. It comes out only for feeding. Well-conditioned specimens when housed in water temperature less than 20C acquires a uniform bright blue body color with maroon-red blotches on the lateral body and immediately takes up golden-green to greenish-gray color when stressed or housed in warm temperature (Ref. 131046). Praveenraj, J., T. Thackeray, S.G. Singh, A. Uma, N. Moulitharan and B.K. Mukhim 2020 A new species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, northeastern India. Copeia 108(4):938-947. (Ref. 131046) FB-DiagnosticDescr-70615 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-06-07 00:00:00 2024-06-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70615 This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the following characters: body uniform bright blue to bluish-green, bright-blue dorsal, anal, and caudal fins, submarginally black with white distal margin, series of brown to maroon-red, rounded, oblong or clover-shaped blotches or spots on dorsolateral, postorbital, and ventrolateral region of head, continued on body forming oblique pattern or randomly distributed; similar to C. pardalis and C. bipuli in appearance, but differs from both in having brown to maroon-red, rounded, oblong or clover-shaped blotches or spots on head and sides of the body (vs. possession of well-defined, black to brown, rounded to oblong spots), fewer pre-dorsal scales 7 (vs. 8–9), more caudal-fin rays 15 (vs. 13), and more vertebrae 49 (vs. 45) (Ref. 131046). Praveenraj, J., T. Thackeray, S.G. Singh, A. Uma, N. Moulitharan and B.K. Mukhim 2020 A new species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, northeastern India. Copeia 108(4):938-947. (Ref. 131046) FB-Morphology-70615 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-06-07 00:00:00 2024-06-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70615 Dorsal soft rays (total): 36 - 39; Analsoft rays: 24 - 26; Vertebrae: 49 Praveenraj, J., T. Thackeray, S.G. Singh, A. Uma, N. Moulitharan and B.K. Mukhim 2020 A new species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, northeastern India. Copeia 108(4):938-947. (Ref. 131046) FB-Distribution-70615 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-06-07 00:00:00 2024-06-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70615 Asia: India. Praveenraj, J., T. Thackeray, S.G. Singh, A. Uma, N. Moulitharan and B.K. Mukhim 2020 A new species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, northeastern India. Copeia 108(4):938-947. (Ref. 131046) FB-Size-70615 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-06-07 00:00:00 2024-06-07 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70615 15.5 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 131046)) Praveenraj, J., T. Thackeray, S.G. Singh, A. Uma, N. Moulitharan and B.K. Mukhim 2020 A new species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, northeastern India. Copeia 108(4):938-947. (Ref. 131046) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-70615 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-06-07 00:00:00 2024-06-07 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70615 benthopelagic; freshwater