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Channa asiatica (chinafish; snakehead; Small snakehead)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The small snakehead (Channa asiatica) is a species of snakehead. It is one of four species of the genus Channa native to China. It also can be found in Taiwan and southern Japan, to which it migrated (or was introduced). It is a medium-sized snakehead which is a nestbuilder (as opposed to the Indian mouthbrooder dwarf snakeheads).
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Maolan Biosphere Reserve V 79467 Guizhou, China  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Centrocestus caninus[1]

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♦ 1Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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