46 Species in Family Channidae
Nominal species list for Channidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Channa amphibeus (McClelland, 1845) Borna snakehead
Channa andrao Britz, 2013 Redspotted snakehead
Channa ara (Deraniyagala, 1945) Sri Lanka giant snakehead
Channa argus (Cantor, 1842) Snakehead
Channa asiatica (Linnaeus, 1758) Small snakehead
Channa aurantimaculata Musikasinthorn, 2000 Goldspotted snakehead
Channa aurantipectoralis Lalhlimpuia, Lalronunga & Lalramliana, 2016 Orangefinned snakehead
Channa bankanensis (Bleeker, 1853) Bangka snakehead
Channa baramensis (Steindachner, 1901) Baram snakehead
Channa barca (Hamilton, 1822) Barca snakehead
Channa bleheri Vierke, 1991 Bluefinned snakehead
Channa brunnea Praveenraj, Uma, Moulitharan & Kannan, 2019 Brown bleheri
Channa burmanica Chaudhuri, 1919 Putao snakehead
Channa cyanospilos (Bleeker, 1853) Bluespotted snakehead
Channa diplogramma (Day, 1865) Malabar snakehead
Channa gachua (Hamilton, 1822) Red seam snakehead
Channa harcourtbutleri (Annandale, 1918) Burmese snakehead
Channa hoaluensis Nguyen, 2011 Vietnames snakehead
Channa kelaartii (Günther, 1861) Dwarf snakehead
Channa longistomata Nguyen, Nguyen & Nguyen, 2012
Channa lucius (Cuvier, 1831) Javanese snakehead
Channa maculata (Lacepède, 1801) Blotched snakehead
Channa marulioides (Bleeker, 1851) Orange snakehead
Channa marulius (Hamilton, 1822) Great snakehead
Channa melanoptera (Bleeker, 1855) Blackfinned snakehead
Channa melanostigma Geetakumari & Vishwanath, 2011 Lohit snakehead
Channa melasoma (Bleeker, 1851) Black snakehead
Channa micropeltes (Cuvier, 1831) Indonesian snakehead
Channa ninhbinhensis Nguyen, 2011 Orange seam snakehead
Channa nox Zhang, Musikasinthorn & Watanabe, 2002 Dark snakehead
Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Walking snakehead
Channa ornatipinnis Britz, 2008 Ornate snakehead
Channa panaw Musikasinthorn, 1998 Blackspotted snakehead
Channa pardalis Knight, 2016 Leopard snakehead
Channa pleurophthalma (Bleeker, 1851) Ocellated snakehead
Channa pomanensis Gurumayum & Tamang, 2016 Poma snakehead
Channa pseudomarulius (Günther, 1861) Orangespotted snakehead
Channa pulchra Britz, 2007 Colored snakehead
Channa punctata (Bloch, 1793) Spotted snakehead
Channa rara Britz, Dahanukar, Anoop & Ali, 2019
Channa shingon Endruweit, 2017 Humpbacked snakehead
Channa stewartii (Playfair, 1867) Assamese snakehead
Channa striata (Bloch, 1793) Striped snakehead
Parachanna africana (Steindachner, 1879) African snakehead
Parachanna insignis (Sauvage, 1884) Largespotted snakehead
Parachanna obscura (Günther, 1861) African obscure snakehead
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