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Northern Snakehead
Channa argus (Cantor, 1842)
Also calledArgus-Schlangenkopffisch (deu) · Cabeza de serpiente (spa) · Kamuruchi (jpn) · Pesce testa di serpente (ita) · Poisson tête de serpent (fra) · Tähniline madupea (est) · Wężogłów (pol) · hadohlavec skvrnitý (ces) · noordelijke slangekopvis (nld) · poisson à tête de serpent (fra) · ปลาช่อนจีนลายจุด (tha) · ปลาช่อนอากัส (tha) · ปลาช่อนเหนือ (tha) · カムルチー (jpn)
First described in: Cantor, Theodore. 1842. General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of that island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology', and of Louden and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History' 9(60): 481–496.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Coad (2014: 319). — Afghanistan materials: None.
Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist
distribution
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Amu Darya. — General distribution: East Asia: China, Korea and Russia; introduced elsewhere. — Habitat: This species is mainly found in freshwater main rivers and smaller tributaries, as well as lakes and marshy water systems. This species is considered invasive and known to predate native fauna. It makes seasonal migrations in the autumn from lakes and bays to main riverbeds (deeper places of the main stream), where it hibernates, and in the spring it moves back to shallow areas. Freshwater.
Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Channa argus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4284921.