Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Anabantiformes

Family: Osphronemidae

Genus: Ctenops

Species: Ctenops nobilis McClelland, 1845

Climate Zone

Location

• Asia: India and Bangladesh.

Biology

Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274); Found in rivers and lakes with overgrown vegetation (Ref. 41236), streams (Ref. 4833), ponds and beels (Ref. 1479). Larvivorous.

Habitat

brackish

Conservation Status

Near Threatened

Threat to Humans

Harmless