orientalis, Channa Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:496, Pl. 90 (lower fig.) [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Probably southwestern Sri Lanka [East Indies]. No types known. Type catalog: Paepke 1993:255 [ref. 21846]. Based on Gronow 1763: Pl. 9, Fig. 1 [ref. 1910]. •Valid as Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Roberts 1989:170 [ref. 6439], Ataur Rahman 1989:69 [ref. 24860], Vierke 1991:22 [ref. 16625], Pethiyagoda 1991:281 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:1019 [ref. 20764], Indra 1991:241 [ref. 24005], Indra 1993:188 [ref. 24009], Rema Devi 1993:358 [ref. 24007], Rema Devi 1993:208 [ref. 24010], Singh & Yazdani 1993:200 [ref. 24022], Rema Devi & Ilango 1993:248 [ref. 24017], Indra 1994:420 [ref. 24015], Sen 1995:594 [ref. 23778], Rainboth 1996:220 [ref. 22772], Rema Devi et al. 1996:140 [ref. 24021], Zacharias et al. 1996:41 [ref. 25526], Kottelat 1998:116 [ref. 23436], Manimekalan 1998:441 [ref. 24989], Ng et al. 1999:57 [ref. 24286], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:159 [ref. 24759], Sen 1999:203 [ref. 24750], Musikasinthorn 2000:32 [ref. 24480], Menon 1999:274 [ref. 24904], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Karmakar 2000:35 [ref. 25662], Zhang et al. 2002:142 [ref. 26152], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:51 [ref. 26359], Ataur Rahman 2003:84 [ref. 31338], Courtenay & Williams 2004:101 [ref. 27545], Shrestha 2008:233 [ref. 29923], Yadav 2003:25 [ref. 27711], Nguyen et al. 2012:158 [ref. 32085], Ahmed et al. 2013:287 [ref. 32872], Britz 2013:292 [ref. 32966], Knight 2016:8588 [ref. 34348], Rüber et al. 2019:[4] [ref. 36913], Perera et al. 2020:415 [ref. 37771], Sudasinghe et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37972], Çiçek et al. 2023:46 [ref. 40326]). Current status: Valid as Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider 1801. Channidae. Distribution: South Asia: southwestern Sri Lanka. Introduced in Afghanistan. Habitat: freshwater.