Encyclopedia of Life · EOL (see source)
Species
climbing gouramies
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyAnabantidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 24
- Family
- Anabantidae
- Collections
- USNM, AM, CUMV, ROM, SAMA, NMV
- Recorded in
- Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Tanzania
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Encyclopedic overview
Climbing perch (Anabas testudineus) on land The Anabantidae are a family of ray-finned fish within the order Anabantiformes commonly called the climbing gouramies or climbing perches. The family includes about 34 species. As labyrinth fishes, they possess a labyrinth organ, a structure in the fish's head which allows it to breathe atmospheric oxygen. Fish of this family are commonly seen gulping at air at the surface of the water. The air is held in a structure called the suprabranchial chamber, where oxygen diffuses into the bloodstream via the respiratory epithelium covering the labyrinth organ. This therefore allows the fish to move small distances across land.
Genera
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anabantidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.