Parosphromenus harveyi

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Overview

Family : Gouramies ;

Endangered

Common Names

Description

Family Osphronemidae

Distribution: Pakistan and India to Malay Archipelago and Korea. Teeth absent on prevomer and palatine. Protractile upper jaw. Lateral line single, complete and continuous in Osphroneminae; vestigial in other subfamilies, when present. Maximum dorsal soft rays 10; in Osphroneminae dorsal fin spines 11-13; soft rays 11-13, anal fin spines 9-12; soft rays 16-22, all scales ctenoid, about 80 cm maximum length . Pelvic fins with an elongate ray in many species. Some species are oral brooders and others build bubble nests . Other family name = Polyacanthidae. Four subfamilies recognized: Belontiinae (combtail gouramies ), Macropodinae (Siamese fighting fishes , paradisefishes), Osphroneminae (giant gouramies) and Trichogastrinae (gouramies) (Eschmeyer CoF 2003, Ref. 46206). Family Belontiidae in Ref. 36739.The family Osphronemidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) and the Order Perciformes. It contains 13 genera and 49 species. It may be found in Freshwater environments and is primarily Primary freshwater. Some members of this family are used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are bearers and guarders . The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is labriform . Members of this family have been dated back to the Tertiary period. This family may be found from 20° n to 8° s and 95° w to 120° e. Etymology of this family name: Greek, osphra, -as = smell + Greek,nema = filament

Habitat

Biome: Fresh water . Pelagic.

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Similar Species

Members of the genus Parosphromenus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. alfredi · P. allani · P. anjunganensis · P. bintan · P. deissneri (Licorice Gourami) · P. deissneri sumatranus · P. filamentosus (Spiketail Licorice Gourami) · P. harveyi · P. linkei · P. nagy · P. nagyi · P. opallios · P. ornaticauda · P. pahuensis · P. paludicola · P. parvulus · P. quindecim · P. rubrimontis · P. sumatranus · P. tweediei

More Info

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Further Reading

• Eschmeyer, W.N., Editor (1999). Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of November 1999. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in November 1999.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
• FishBase
• FishBase 2006.
• Heemstra, Phillip C. (from FishBase).
• Kottelat, M. 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Kottelat, M. 1996. Parosphromenus harveyi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2825977
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-140233
• Fishbase Species ID: 57461
• IUCN ID: 16264
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9000

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