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SpeciesPerciformesChannidae
Fish

🐟Channa striata

Channa striata (Bloch, 1793)

Channa striata is een straalvinnige vis uit de familie van de slangkopvissen (Channide). De vis kan maximaal 100 centimeter lang en 3000 gram zwaar worden. Het extract van deze vis wordt gebruikt om het medicijn VipAlbumin te fabriceren.

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≈ 1/21st of your weight
Also called
Asian Snakehead, Chevron Snakehead, Common Snakehead, Snakehead Murrel, Striped Snakehead
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
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Everything we know about the Channa striata

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
3 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
0.61 mrecord 1 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Trophic level
3.57
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.57 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
potential pest
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Volume l
3 Laverage
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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.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyChannidae
  5. ›genusChanna
  6. ›speciesChanna striata
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. suborderChannoidei
  3. familyChannidae
  4. genusChanna
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. orderAnabantiformes
  11. suborderChannoidei
  12. familyChannidae
  13. genusChanna
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