Toman fish wildlife

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Have you ever heard of a toman fish? If you are a lover of ornamental fish or a hobby of fishing, you will definitely know this one fish. This fish, known as the giant snakehead, comes from the island of Borneo and belongs to the cork fish tribe in Latin which is better known as Channidae. When viewed from the shape, the toman fish is very similar to the cork fish. It's just that if you look closely, the toman fish is long, and is the largest species in the Channidae tribe.

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The distribution of the toman fish is quite limited so its name is not very popular. For Indonesia alone, toman fish wildlife can only be found in Sumatra and Kalimantan. However, toman fish can also be found in several countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and also India.

Toman fish are also classified as wild and predatory fish because they prey on fish and other animals in their environment such as frogs and insects. For its size, if the snakehead fish is generally around 40 cm, the toman fish can grow to a length of one meter, or even more.

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Toman fish have a large body shape, are tall, and tend to have a flat body and a rounded tail. Other characteristics are the tapered head shape, small mouth size, and sharp and pointed teeth. It has five fins on the back, thorax, abdomen, anus, and tail.

The attractive color of the toman fish makes this fish also one of the ornamental fish at this time. Where adult toman fish tend to be bluish-black and white bellies. While the toman children are reddish in color with black and orange stripes on the sides of their bodies. With age, the color and stripes fade and turn to bluish-black as the toman fish gets bigger.

In nature, these predatory fish that live in rivers, ditches, lakes, or swamps can prey on small fish, worms, frogs, chicks, shrimp, crabs, and land insects. In addition to being one of the expensive fish that is favored as an ornamental or pet fish, this fish is also preferred to be consumed and is the target of anglers who have a hobby of fishing in the breeding of toman fish.

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When I saw it the first time, I thought it was a snake, never knew it was a fish with a snakehead like appearance

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2 years ago

I guess, this fish is very unique, this is the first heard about this. Thanks for sharing!

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2 years ago

Wow, thanks for the article because this is my first time to know such fish throughout my existence. Hehe.

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2 years ago

Do you fish? Here, we are not allowed to near a river or anything called deep water

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2 years ago

Ikan liar tapi sekarang banyak yang memelihara di akuarium, dan menjadi ikan hias. Hahaha

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2 years ago

I see it is in the same family as Parachanna obscura which is the African snake head. That is the species I am familiar with until now. Thanks for this.

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2 years ago

I never knew about this type of this fish until I came across your writing. Thanks for sharing friend.

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2 years ago

Predatory fish that have beautiful colors and are loved by many people, even some people keep them in aquariums.

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2 years ago

I Know about the finish. This is a carnivore and I had my research work on this kind of finish.

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2 years ago

I never heard about that fish. But by this article i know about Toman fish and its details with pictures.

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