Snakehead is the common name of snakehead, also known as snakehead, raw fish, rich fish, snake fish, salamander and so on. It is the most widely distributed and prolific fish in Sinipercidae. It is fierce in nature, fertile and has a huge appetite. It can often eat all other fish in a lake or pond, even its own young fish. Snakehead can also slide on land, migrate to other waters to find food, and live for 3 days without water.

Snakehead lives in benthic organisms, belongs to carnivorous fish, and likes to live in shallow water with lush aquatic plants. Snakehead is a kind of fish with high economic value because of its delicious taste and rich nutrition. It can remove blood stasis, promote tissue regeneration, nourish and recuperate, promote granulation and enrich blood, promote wound healing, and has high medicinal value.

Eating snakehead has a long history in China, and it was listed as the top grade of insect fish by Shennong Materia Medica as early as 2000 years ago.

Snakehead is a kind of fresh water fish with delicious meat and comprehensive nutrition. The snakehead contains protein, fat, 18 amino acids, and calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins necessary for human body. Known as the "treasure in fish." Black snakehead is a common edible fish, with large size, fast growth and high economic value. It is often used for steaming, boiling, stewing and making soup.

Snakehead is widely distributed, generally inhabiting still water or micro-flowing water with aquatic plants and soft sediments, all over lakes, rivers, reservoirs, ponds and other waters.

Snakehead is a fierce carnivorous fish, and it is greedy. The prey varies with the size of the fish. Larvae less than 3 cm in length are mainly copepods, cladocera and chironomid larvae. Larvae whose body length is less than 3 ~ 8 cm are aquatic insects's larvae, tadpoles, shrimps and larvae. Adult fish over 20 cm in length are all kinds of small fish and frogs.