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African Snakeheads
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African Snakeheads

Parachanna

Parachanna is a genus of snakeheads native to tropical Africa. One fossil species, Parachanna fayumensis,Murray, 2006 dated to the Upper Eocene and Lower Oligocene is known from the Jebel Qatrani Formation of the Fayum Depression, Egypt.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Obscure Snakehead

speciesParachanna obscura

Brown Snakehead

speciesParachanna insignis

African Snakehead

speciesParachanna africana

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 90686.