Talk:Climbing gourami

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As far as I know, this Climbing gourami is a species, Anabas testudineus, and should not be mixed up with the family of Anabantidae, which, partly the text on the page describes. Dan Koehl 16:25, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

See the fishbase reference that I added on the main page and it will confirm the accuracy of the article. It is quite common for the family to be named something like "Climbing Gouramis" and then later to have a single species have the name of the generic type. Often the most common fish in the family takes on the generic name of the family (or vice versa). It is possible that Anabas testudineus has an alternate name, but that wouldn't be required. -- Ram-Man 17:05, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

I realize that, but the article is named Climbing Gourami (singularis) like the species anabas testudineus, and not Climbing Gouramis (pluralis) as Anabantidae and the text content refer to? Dan Koehl 20:07, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Skeptical Aquarist has an overview of Anabantoids—— which are not "climbing gouramies". There are some links at that site to further on-line sources: click on bolded text and find links at the bottom of the (rather long) page. --Wetman 06:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)