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title: "Wężogłów"
description: "Channa argus — Ryby. The northern snakehead also known as Chesapeake Channa (Channa argus) in Maryland U.S is a species of snakehead fish native to temperate East Asia, in China, Russia, North Korea, and South Korea."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/northern-snakehead
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Wężogłów

> Channa argus — Ryby. The northern snakehead also known as Chesapeake Channa (Channa argus) in Maryland U.S is a species of snakehead fish native to temperate East Asia, in China, Russia, North Korea, and South Korea.

- Scientific name: *Channa argus*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 1605
- Wikidata: [Q1156826](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1156826)
- iNaturalist taxon: [128487](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/128487)

## Names

- en: Northern Snakehead
- de: Argus-Schlangenkopffisch
- es: Cabeza de víbora
- fr: Poisson à tête de serpent du Nord
- pl: Wężogłów

## Countries with the most observations

US (874), CN (322), KR (117), JP (77), HK (14), KZ (14), RU (10), UZ (6)

## Summary

The northern snakehead also known as Chesapeake Channa (Channa argus) in Maryland U.S is a species of snakehead fish native to temperate East Asia, in China, Russia, North Korea, and South Korea. Their natural range goes from the Amur River watershed in Siberia and Manchuria down to Hainan. It is an important food fish and one of the most cultivated in its native region, with 510,000 tonnes annual production worldwide. Due to this, the northern snakehead has been exported throughout the world and has managed to establish non-native populations in Central Asia and North America. In the United States, it is found in…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_snakehead

## Photo

![Wężogłów](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/northern-snakehead/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jess Miller-Camp · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20910738

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/northern-snakehead?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).