Ctenopoma is a genus of climbing gouramies native to Africa.

The Anabantidae are a family of perciform fish commonly called the climbing gouramies or climbing perches.

Anabantidae (climbing gouramies)

The Anabantidae are a family of perciform fish commonly called the climbing gouramies or climbing perches.

Some fish now classified as gouramis were previously placed in family Anabantidae.

Microctenopoma damasi is a species of fish in the Anabantidae family.

Being a member of the Anabantidae family, they have an auxiliary breathing apparatus called a labyrinth into which they draw air from the surface.

The Anabantidae are a family of perciform fish commonly called the climbing gouramies or climbing perches.

Climbing gouramis (family Anabantidae)

The name "gourami", of Javanese origin, is also used for fish of the families Helostomatidae and Anabantidae.

The fish is a member of the gourami family (family Osphronemidae) of order Perciformes, but was formerly classified among the Anabantidae.

These include Protopteridae, Polypteridae, Notopteridae, Clariidae, Anabantidae, and Channidae.

The Eastern Province rocky (Sandelia bainsii), also known as Rocky Kurper, is a species of fish in the Anabantidae family.

ANABANTIDAE Sandelia capensis (Cape Kurper)

It is part of the unique Anabantidae family, that is freshwater fish that originate from South East Asia and Africa and is therefore related to the Siamese fighting fish (Betta Splendens).

A New Species of Nest Building Ctenopoma (Teleostei, Anabantidae) from Zaire, with a Redescription of Ctenopoma lineatum (Nichols) Steven M. Norris, Michael E. Douglas Copeia, Vol.