🐟Northern snakehead
The northern snakehead also known as Chesapeake Channa is a species of snakehead fish native to temperate East Asia, in China, Russia, North Korea, and South Korea. Their natural range goes from the Amur River watershed in Siberia and Manchuria down to Hainan. It is an important food fish and one of the most cultivated in its native region, with 510,000 tonnes annual production worldwide. Due to this, the northern snakehead has been exported throughout the world and has managed to establish non-native populations in Central Asia and North America. In the United States, it is found in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 8 kg
- Body length
- 1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Northern snakehead
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass8 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1 mmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level4.44FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.44 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
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Volume l8 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 Northern snakehead 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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