🐟Channa striata
Channa striata, the striped snakehead, is a species of snakehead fish. It is also known as the common snakehead, chevron snakehead, or snakehead murrel and generally referred simply as mudfish. It is native to South and Southeast Asia, and has been introduced to some Pacific Islands. Reports from Madagascar and Hawaii are misidentifications of C. maculata.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 3 kg
- Body length
- 0.61 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Channa striata
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.61 mrecord 1 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level3.57FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.57 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanspotential pestFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l3 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Channa striata yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- suborderChannoidei
- familyChannidae
- genusChanna
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderAnabantiformes
- suborderChannoidei
- familyChannidae
- genusChanna
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