Giant snakehead
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The giant snakehead is also valued as food in the region where it lives.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Giant snakehead
- Scientific name
- Channa micropeltes
- Japanese name
- スネークヘッド
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Anabantiformes
- Family
- Channidae
- Genus
- Channa
"Snakehead" is also used as the name for this whole group of fish.
Basic data
- Size
- 1 m or more
- Range
- Southwestern India and Southeast Asia
Where the Giant 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
- スネークヘッド
- 简体中文
- 小盾鳢
- 繁體中文
- 小盾鱧
- 한국어
- 큰가물치
- Français
- Tête de serpent d'Indonésie
- Deutsch
- Großer Schlangenkopffisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Cabeça-de-cobra-gigante
- العربية
- شنة أندونيسية
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Toman
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá lóc bông
- Русский
- Коричневый змееголов
- Türkçe
- Dev yılanbaş
- ไทย
- ปลาชะโด
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 — スネークヘッドChecked: 2026-11-04
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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