fish african coffee snakehead or dark snakehead (parachanna obscura)

across african antennae base basins between blackish brownish caudal chad color compressed congo connected cover covered distributed dorsal edge elongated entire expanding extend family find fins fish floodplains forming found front head helping jaw lagoons lakes larger laterally located marbled medium mouth niger oblique obscura olive order parachanna part perciformes ponds posterior pronounced quickly reddish rivers round scales senegal short sides slightly snakehead some species spot spots streams stretches stripe stripes strongly studded swamps touch upper victim volta yellowish