Betta balunga

Species of fish

Betta balunga

Conservation status

Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Anabantiformes
Family:  | Osphronemidae
Genus:  | Betta
Species:  |

B. balunga

Binomial name
Betta balunga

Herre, 1940[2]

Betta balunga is a species of gourami endemic to the island of Borneo, and whose species name derives from the location where it was first described - the Balung River in Sabah, eastern Malaysia.[3] It inhabits forest and black water streams, and grows to a length of 4.9 cm (1.9 in).[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Low, B.W. (2019). "Betta balunga". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T91308948A91308973. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T91308948A91308973.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. ^ Herre, A.W.C.T. (1940). "Additions to the fish fauna of Malaysia and notes on rare or little known Malayan and Bornean fishes". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 16: 27–36.
3. ^ Linke, Horste (2012), "Betta balunga HERRE, 1940", Labyrinth Fish World, Taiwan: Fish Magazine Taiwan, p. 49, ISBN 978-986-84527-7-0
4. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Betta balunga" in FishBase. February 2014 version.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q4898355
* Wikispecies: Betta balunga
* CoL: LNYR
* EoL: 216029
* FishBase: 52329
* GBIF: 2393988
* iNaturalist: 618848
* IRMNG: 10572264
* ITIS: 638701
* IUCN: 91308948
* NCBI: 1384558
* WoRMS: 1014819

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