THE SNAKEHEAD FAMILY Channidae


SNAKEHEAD Channa cf. micropeltes (Cuvier)

DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE: Introduced - Non- reproducing. One record of a hook-and-line capture from Pomps Pond, the Merrimack drainage (MCZ 96097). A second similar fish was said to have been caught by the same fisherman.


from: An Annotated Working List of the Inland Fishes of Massachusetts. © 1996. K.E. Hartel (hartel@mcz.harvard.edu), D.B. Halliwell (arcsys@mint.net) and A.E. Launer (aelauner@leland.stanford.edu).