Unexpected species diversity within Sri Lanka’s snakehead fishes of the Channa marulius group (Teleostei: Channidae) Author Sudasinghe, Hiranya Author Adamson, Eleanor A. S. Author Ranasinghe, R. H. Tharindu Author Meegaskumbura, Madhava Author Ikebe, Chiho Author Britz, Ralf text Zootaxa 2020 2020-03-02 4747 1 113 132 journal article 23777 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.4 d1d12eda-0dbe-46d4-97f9-95a9de472c8a 1175-5326 3693477 1F1FC50F-1C99-4EC8-8224-EA5FC67F1993

TABLE 2. Diagnostic meristic characters within the Marulius group. Data for C. marulius from India and Myanmar, and for C. pseudomarulius, from Britz et al. (2017); C. aurolineata from Adamson & Britz (2018); and C. auroflammea from Adamson et al. (2019). Ranges exclude specimens with vertebral anomalies. Values in parentheses are counts for specimens with vertebral anomalies.

	Total vertebrae	Lateral-line scales	Dorsal-fin rays	Anal-fin rays
Channa ara	56	59–62	47–48	29–30
C. marulius (Sri Lanka)	(60)	62–64 (64)	50–51 (51)	32 (32)
C. cf. ara (Sri Lanka)	57 (55–57)	57–61 (57–61)	44–50 (44–50)	28–32 (28–30)
C. marulius (India and Myanmar)	59–63	62–65	52–56	33–37
C. pseudomarulius	55	58–61	47–50	29–33
C. aurolineata	63–66 (61–64)	65–71 (65–70)	55–58 (55–57)	35–38 (32–37)
C. auroflammea	58–61 (58–59)	61–65 (60–63)	52–54 (53–54)	33–36 (33–34)