Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 11; Anal soft rays: 28 - 31; Vertebrae: 30 - 32. Characterized by having kidney-shaped black throat mark; dorsal and caudal transverse bars present; spotted opercle; opercle with black lower margin; subdorsal scale, mode 6 ½; postdorsal scales, mode12; anal fin rays, mode 29; and lateral scales, mode 31 (Ref. 56386).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Anabantiformes

Family: Osphronemidae

Genus: Betta

Species: Betta renata Tan, 1998

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274); Occurs in black-waters draining out from peat swamp forests. Also collected from a flooded peat swamp forest, among plant debris and logs in shallow tea-colored water, with a pH of 4.1 (Ref. 30225).

Habitat

benthopelagic

Conservation Status

Vulnerable

Threat to Humans

Harmless