Barca snakehead | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Channidae |
Genus: | Channa |
Species: | C. barca |
Binomial name | |
Channa barca (Hamilton, 1822) |
The Barca snakehead, Channa barca, is a species of snakehead. It is extremely rare. Its type location is Goalpara, a small city on the southern banks of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, India. According to snakeheads.org, outside India there are only three living specimen kept in aquaria.