Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Anabantiformes

Family: Channidae

Genus: Channa

Species: Channa maculata (Lacepède, 1801)

Climate Zone

Location

• Asia: Japan, southern China, Viet Nam, Taiwan and the Philippines.

Biology

Obligate air-breathing (Ref. 126274); Adults inhabit silty and weedy bottoms of rivers and ponds or lakes (Ref. 9671). Feed on crustaceans, large insects, frogs and fishes (Ref. 5258). Oviparous (Ref. 205). Recorded as having been or being farmed in rice fields (Ref. 119549).

Habitat

benthopelagic

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless