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Channa barca (Barca snakehead)

Synonyms: Ophicephalus nigricans; Ophiocephalus barca
Language: Bengali; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

The Barca snakehead (Channa barca) is a rare species of snakehead. Its type location is Goalpara, a small city on the southern banks of the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India. In Assam, it is locally known as cheng garaka or garaka cheng.
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Migration [1]  Potamodromous

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0