Anabas

Anabas (Anabas Cloquet, 1816) also called climbing perch or Ikan Puyu is a genus of the bone fishes from familia Anabantidae from perciform Perciformes fish.

Contents 1 Description 2 Ranges 3 Behaviour 4 Species 5 References

Description

Fresh-water fishes have the length up to 20 cm. Anabas reside in both brackish and fresh water.^[1]
Marking corpus is brown-green in colour and the belly is yellowish. The azygous fins have prickly beams.
Anabas possess a labyrinth organ, a structure in the fish's head which allows it to breathe atmospheric oxygen, and therefore can be out of water for an extended period of time (6–8 hours).

Ranges

Southern Asia (India, Bangladesh, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippine Islands)

Behaviour

Anabas are carnivorous, living on a diet of water invertebrates and their larvae, and guard their eggs.

Species

List of species^[2]:

• Anabas testudineus (Bloch, 1792) - Climbing perch, Climbing bass
• Anabas cobojius (Hamilton, 1822)

List of invalid species^[3]:

• Anabas ansorgii Boulenger, 1912 - at present time called Microctenopoma ansorgii Boulenger, 1912
• Anabas argentoventer Ahl in Schreitmüller and Ahl, 1922 - at present time called Ctenopoma kingsleyae Günther, 1896
• Anabas fasciolata Boulenger, 1899 - at present time called Microctenopoma fasciolatum (Boulenger, 1899)
• Anabas muriei Boulenger, 1906 - at present time called Ctenopoma muriei (Boulenger, 1906)
• Anabas nanum (Günther, 1896) - at present time called Microctenopoma nanum (Günther, 1896)
• Anabas ocellatus (Pellegrin, 1899) - at present time called Ctenopoma ocellatus Pellegrin, 1899
• Anabas oxyrhynchus Boulenger, 1902 - at present time called Ctenopoma oxyrhynchus (Boulenger, 1902)

List of species accepted as Anabas testudineus (Bloch, 1792) at present time^[4]:

• Anabas elongatus Reuvens, 1895
• Anabas macrocephalus Bleeker, 1854
• Anabas microcephalus Bleeker, 1857
• Anabas scandens (Daldorff, 1797)
• Anabas spinosus Gray, 1834
• Anabas trifoliatus Kaup, 1860
• Anabas variegatus Bleeker, 1851

References