Channa striata, the striped snakehead, is a species of snakehead fish. It is also known as the common snakehead, chevron snakehead, or snakehead murrel and generally referred simply as mudfish. It is native to South and Southeast Asia, and has been introduced to some Pacific Islands.
Availability: It occurs in rivers, beels, baors, streams, ponds,ditches, swamps and floodplains throughout Bangladesh (Rahman 2005, Ahmed and Akhter 2008).
Scientific Name: Channa striatas (Bloch, 1793)
English Name: Snakehead Murrel
Bengali Name: Shol Shoil