Asian Snakehead
Scientific name: Channa striata (Bloch, 1793)
Overview
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.
From the Wikipedia article “Channa striata”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Common names
Also known in English as Chevron Snakehead, Common Snakehead, Snakehead Murrel, striped snakehead.
Names in other languages (5)
- Arabic
- شنة مقلمة
- Bengali
- শোল
- Chinese
- 線鱧
- Indonesian
- Ikan gabus
- Japanese
- プラーチョン
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q686439, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Channa striata”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Justin Philbois, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026