Confusions over snakehead fish species identity need not bother ichthyologists anymore, as a global digital database of the species has been developed.
A global collaborative initiative involving as many as 10 scientific institutions has barcoded these freshwater fish varieties, which got their name from their unique snake-like snout. The members of the species are found distributed from the Middle East to eastern Asia, Central and West Africa and the Nile.
Earlier, it was widely believed that there were 38 species in this group. However, the DNA-level analysis showed that there were several more species than first thought. The species strength of snakeheads could be 53 or even more, said Rajeev Raghavan, Assistant professor of the Kerala University for Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kochi, which is one of the partnering institutions in the project. =READ MORE
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