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Black Snakehead
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Black Snakehead

Channa melasoma

The black snakehead (Channa melasoma) is a species of snakehead native to Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore. This commercially important species reaches a length of 30 cm (12 in).

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 187223.