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Parachanna Teugels & Daget, 1984

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Teugels, Guy G., and Jacques Daget, 1984: Parachanna nom. nov. for the African snake-heads and rehabilitation of Parachanna insignis (Sauvage, 1884) (Pisces, Channidae). Cybium, vol. 8, no. 4. 1-7.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Channidae
genus
Parachanna

Name

Synonyms
Paraphiocephalus
Parophiocephalus Senna, 1924
Homonyms
Parachanna Teugels & Daget, 1984
Common names
African Snakeheads in English
Afrikanische Schlangenkopffische in German
afrikanska ormhuvudsfiskar in Swedish
ปลาช่อนแอฟริกา in Thai
副鱧屬 in Chinese
afrikanska ormhuvudsfiskar in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Bonou, Clément A., and Guy G. Teugels, 1985: Révision systématique du genre Parachanna Teugels et Daget 1984 (Pisces: Channidae). Revue d'Hydrobiologie Tropicale, vol. 18, no. 4. 267-280.
  2. Cybium (Ser. 3) 8 (4)
  3. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  4. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  5. FishBase
  6. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
  7. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  8. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  9. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
  10. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
  11. Svensson (2018) Mail concerning Swedish names of Channidae, Channa and Parachanna sent to Johan Liljeblad on 2018-02-09.
  12. Teugels, Guy G., and Jacques Daget, 1984: Parachanna nom. nov. for the African snake-heads and rehabilitation of Parachanna insignis (Sauvage, 1884) (Pisces, Channidae). Cybium, vol. 8, no. 4. 1-7.
  13. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
  14. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
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