Malabar snakehead [SEP] IUCN conservation status
Malabar snakehead
The Malabar snakehead ("Channa diplogramma") is a vulnerable species of snakehead from freshwater in the Western Ghats in India. Until 2011, it was usually included in the giant snakehead, "C. micropeltes".
Taxonomy.
Sir Francis Day described "Ophiocephalus diplogramma" in 1865 based on one juvenile specimen (42 mm in length) collected near the mouth of the Cochin River in the port city of Cochin (southwestern India), and called it Malabar snakehead. The color pattern of this
eruption of Colo Volcano on Una-Una Island in Tomini Bay in 1983. This is unlikely to be the case. Instead most scientists believe the human introduction of the predatory fishes including snakehead, "Channa striata", and tilapia, "Oreochromis mossambicus", most likely led to their present conservation status.
Conservation Conservation status.
The duck-billed buntingi's status on the IUCN Red List changed from critically endangered] to possibly extinct in 2019. Historically the species was not closely monitored so it is unclear when the