Five banded snakehead
📖 Overview
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🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
This species is distinguished from all its congeners by having a unique greyish to chrome-yellow body colour, with five black oblique bands horizontally along the upper half of the lateral body, dorsal-fin membrane with three rows of multiple black to brown oblong spots running horizontally along the whole fin length, and caudal-fin membrane alternating with
🌀 Behaviour
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🦐 Diet
Diet information for Five banded snakehead is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Reproduction data for Five banded snakehead is currently being compiled.
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Freshwater; brackish; benthopelagic. Tropical
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🔍 Similar Species
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