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Forest Fighting Fish / Forest Betta

Betta pugnax

Photo by FakawiTribe
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Field Notes

Description:

two broken dark stripes from eye to caudal peduncle. Dorsal side of body is dark brown and ventral side lighter brown.

Habitat:

Peninsular Malaysia. Found this guy sleeping at night in shallow clear fast flowing jungle stream at night and I was able to get macro shots of it with my underwater camera!

Notes:

Betta: from ikan betah, the vernacular Malay for species of this genus.

pugnax: from the Latin pugnax, meaning ‘combative’

Reference Links:

Penang betta - Wikipedia, Forest Betta - Betta pugnax

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Wildlife of South East Asia
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Malaysian Biodiversity

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PublishedDecember 31, 2016

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