This fish is cylindrical in the front and laterally flattened in the back, with a pointed head, like a snake's head, and scales on the body. The side of the head has black stripes, the mouth is relatively large, and there are medium sized scales all over the body. The colors generally live underwater and have a more aggressive personality.

Snakeheads generally refer to snakeheads, also known as blackfish, fish, stick, etc., is the snakehead family, snakeheads, fish, but also China's common freshwater food fish, "fish in the treasures," said. Snakehead fish in the East is a kind of edible high-grade fish, its meat has a very good effect, for postpartum women, the first recovery from a serious illness, after surgery is a good tonic; and in the West snakehead fish is considered a kind of devil, horrible appearance, coupled with ferocious habits, so that the Westerners mistakenly think that it is the same as piranhas will eat human monsters.