asiaticus, Gymnotus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:246 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Asia. Holotype (unique): ZMUU Linn. Coll. 171. Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:39 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1991:187-188, Fig. 26 [ref. 20102]. •Valid as Channa asiatica (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984:122 [ref. 6441], Feng in Kuang et al. 1986:320 [ref. 26639], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:476 [ref. 25598], Zheng 1989:369 [ref. 21202], Vierke 1991:20 [ref. 16625], Zhong in Pan et al. 1991:516 [ref. 23876], Zhu 1995:187 [ref. 25213], Musikasinthorn 2000:32 [ref. 24480], Nakabo 2000:1353 [ref. 25182], Tang et al. 2001:15 [ref. 25373], Kottelat 2001:63 [ref. 25482], Sakai et al. 2001:122 [ref. 25693], Zhang et al. 2002:142 [ref. 26152], Nakabo 2002:1353 [ref. 26193], Courtenay & Williams 2004:53 [ref. 27545], Ho & Shao 2011:60 [ref. 31432], Nguyen 2011:xx [ref. 32049], Britz 2013:292 [ref. 32966], Endruweit 2014:156 [ref. 33205], Kottelat 2013:459 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:209 [ref. 34477], Rüber et al. 2019:[3] [ref. 36913]). Current status: Valid as Channa asiatica (Linnaeus 1758). Channidae. Distribution: East Asia: China; introduced elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater.