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The red-tailed golden is found in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The gold crossback, blue Malayan, or Bukit Merah blue is native to the state of Pahang and the Bukit Merah area in Perak, Peninsular Malaysia. The red, super red, blood red, or chili red is known only from the upper part of the Kapuas River and nearby lakes in western Indonesian ...
At least five extinct genera, known only from fossils, are classified as osteoglossids; these date back at least as far as the Late Cretaceous.Other fossils from as far back as the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous are widely considered to belong to the arowana superorder Osteoglossomorpha.
In Malaysia, it is a highly prized food fish, being one of the most expensive fish in the country, wild specimens can be sold for thousands of ringgit.Due to this they are overfished and are now rare in the wild, further increasing their value and local fishermen's incentive to catch it.
The silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) is a South American freshwater bony fish of the family Osteoglossidae.Silver arowanas are sometimes kept in aquariums, but they are predatory and require a very large tank.
By Presidential decree, the Javan hawk-eagle was legally registered as considered as the national bird of Indonesia, and thus attributing the endangered species very high protection. Arwana merah (red Asian arowana ) is designated as the Indonesian national animal of charm and also national fish.
Scleropages jardinii, the Gulf saratoga, Australian bonytongue, pearl arowana or northern saratoga, is a freshwater bony fish native to Australia and New Guinea, one of two species of fishes sometimes known as Australian arowana, the other being Scleropages leichardti.
The black arowana is native to tropical South America where restricted to the Rio Negro basin, including the Branco River. [3] [6] [7] Black arowanas were discovered in the 1970s in the Orinoco basins, but whether this is a natural population or the result of introductions by humans is disputed.
Heterotis niloticus - MHNT. The African arowana or Nile arowana (Heterotis niloticus) is a species of bonytongue.Despite being called an "arowana", the African arowana is more closely related to arapaimas, the only other members in the subfamily Arapaiminae, than the South American, Asian, and Australian arowanas in the subfamily Osteoglossinae (Arapaiminae is sometimes considered to be a ...