One of my teachers Dr. M. Manjurul Alam took photo of a rare orange colored fish looks like Channa sp. This fish was caught in Bangladeshi water. What do you think about the strange color? Albinism or is it a new species?
Can you please provide other physical/biological characteristics on this organism? Fish can morph in color due to stress, predation and other environmental factors.
Dear Nancy Arias: Thank you very much for your answer. I know about the website and infact I've collected this photo from there, but they are still struggling to identify this species. Many experts opined that this probably due to albinism/ rare expression of recessive allele others said that this could be a new species. However, none of the hypothesis were proved. I bring this photo to this forum to make a discussion on this species and probably this variety is available in other country...Let's see what we can find out. However, I was also involved in the process of identification of this species. But we are struggling because the specimen was released in the water body after taking few photographs.
You released it?! Do you have any biological material from it for at least a DNA sample?
From my point of view - Clarias sp. albino. Yellowish color is result of albinism.
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