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Osphronemidae
Siamese fighting fish
Betta splendens
A labyrinth organ breathing through oxygen poor Mekong waters
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Asia (unspecified)
- Fusiform
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
SmallSiamese fighting fish is a freshwater fish from Asia. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 6.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Osphronemidae
- Genus
- Betta
- Maximum length
- 6.5 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Asia: Mekong basin.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
