A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Channidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Channa amphibeus (McClelland, 1845) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa andrao Britz, 2013 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| snakeheadChanna argus (Cantor, 1842) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa aristonei Praveenraj, Thackeray, Singh, Uma, Moulitharan & Mukhim, 2020 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa aurantimaculata Musikasinthorn, 2000 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa barca (Hamilton, 1822) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa bipuli Praveenraj, Uma, Moulitharan & Bleher, 2018 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa brahmacharyi Chakraborty, Yardi & Mukherjee, 2020 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa brunnea Praveenraj, Uma, Moulitharan & Kannan, 2019 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa burmanica Chaudhuri, 1919 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa cyanospilos (Bleeker, 1853) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa diplogramma (Day, 1865) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa harcourtbutleri (Annandale, 1918) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa hoaluensis Nguyen, 2011 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa lipor Praveenraj, Uma, Moulitharan & Singh, 2019 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa maculata (Lacepède, 1801) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa marulioides (Bleeker, 1851) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa marulius (Hamilton, 1822) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa melanoptera (Bleeker, 1855) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa melanostigma Geetakumari & Vishwanath, 2011 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa nox Zhang, Musikasinthorn & Watanabe, 2002 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider, 1801 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa ornatipinnis Britz, 2008 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa panaw Musikasinthorn, 1998 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa pulchra Britz, 2007 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa quinquefasciata Praveenraj, Uma, Knight, Moulitharan, Balasubramanian, Bineesh & Bleher, 2018 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa rara Britz, Dahanukar, Anoop & Ali, 2019 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa stewartii (Playfair, 1867) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Channa stiktos Lalramliana, Knight, Lalhlimpuia & Singh, 2018 | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parachanna africana (Steindachner, 1879) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parachanna insignis (Sauvage, 1884) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parachanna obscura (Günther, 1861) | ChannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.