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{{Short description|Species of fish}}
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| image=Channa_asiatica_red.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Zhuang, X. |date=2012 |title=''Channa asiatica'' |volume=2012 |page=e.T166021A1106176 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T166021A1106176.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Channa asiatica
| authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])
| synonyms = *''Gymnotus asiaticus'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> 
*''Channa ocellata'' <small>[[Wilhelm Peters|Peters]], 1864</small> 
*''Channa sinensis'' <small>[[Henri Émile Sauvage|Sauvage]], 1880</small> 
*''Channa formosana'' <small>[[David Starr Jordan|Jordan]] & [[Barton Warren EVermann|Evermann]], 1902</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name = Fishbase>{{Fishbase|Channa|asiatica|month=August|year=2019}}</ref>
}}
The '''small snakehead''' (''Channa asiatica'') is a species of [[Channidae|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 snakehead]]s).

==References==
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* {{ITIS |id=166683 |taxon=Channa asiatica |accessdate=18 April 2006}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.snakeheads.org/ snakeheads.org] the comprehensive website for all aspects of snakeheads

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[[Category:Channa|Small snakehead]]
[[Category:Fish described in 1758]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus]]


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