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The Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens), commonly known as the betta, [2] is a freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, namely Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. [3][4] It is one of 76 species of the genus Betta, but the only one eponymously called "betta", owing to its global popularity as a pet; Betta ...
The peaceful betta or crescent betta (Betta imbellis) is a species of gourami native to Southeast Asia. Betta imbellis has a pair of suprabranchial chambers that each house a labyrinth organ, a complex bony structure lined with thin, highly vascularised respiratory epithelium. The labyrinth organ is a morpho‐physiological adaptation that ...
Oshimia D. S. Jordan, 1919. Pseudobetta Richter, 1981. Betta / ˈbɛtə / is a large genus of small, active, often colorful, freshwater ray-finned fishes, in the gourami family (Osphronemidae). [1] The best known Betta species is B. splendens, commonly known as the Siamese fighting fish and often kept as an aquarium pet.
Marine fish can produce high numbers of eggs which are often released into the open water column. The eggs have an average diameter of 1 millimetre (0.039 in). The eggs are generally surrounded by the extraembryonic membranes but do not develop a shell, hard or soft, around these membranes.
Celery was probably a typical pet store Betta fish. She was blue with pink tinged-fins, not as iridescent or full-finned as some of her plastic tanked neighbors, but healthy looking enough.
The diets of adult longear (longer than 102 mm) are composed of terrestrial insects (37%), fish (31%), aquatic insects (21%), and fish eggs (7%). [4] Largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and wading birds are all natural predators to the longear sunfish. [12] Smaller species of longear can be preyed on by larger sunfish populations.
Typically, the male bubble nesters stay nearby to guard the nests and constantly retrieve any falling eggs and fry to the nest. Some Betta species from fast-flowing waters, however, are mouthbrooders and do not build bubble nests. [5] In these species, males hold the eggs and fry in their mouths and release the free-swimming fry about a week to ...
Betta smaragdina, commonly known as the emerald green betta, blue betta or Mekong fighting fish (Thai: ปลากัดเขียว or ปลากัดอีสาน) is a species of gourami native to Southeast Asia. The species gets its green and blue colors due to refraction and interference of light that results from hexagonal ...