Great snakehead
Amazing fact
Great snakeheads build floating nests from aquatic plants and leaves.
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Great snakeheads build floating nests from aquatic plants and leaves.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Great snakehead
- Scientific name
- Channa marulius
- Japanese name
- コブラ・スネークヘッド
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Anabantiformes
- Family
- Channidae
- Genus
- Channa
How the Great snakehead lives
They live in slow-flowing rivers and still lakes and swamps. They tend to live where aquatic plants grow underwater. Parents guard the young as they grow after hatching.
IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist GroupBasic data
- Range
- India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand
Where the Great snakehead has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- コブラ・スネークヘッド
- 简体中文
- 眼鳢
- 繁體中文
- 眼鱧
- 한국어
- 큰가물치
- Deutsch
- Augenfleck-Schlangenkopf
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá lóc mắt bò
- Русский
- Zmeegolov-maruliy
- বাংলা
- গজার
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — コブラ・スネークヘッドChecked: 2026-11-04
- IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group — Channa maruliusChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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