Endangered
Blood Betta
Betta livida
Blood Betta is a gourami endemic to Malaysia, where it is only found in the state of Selangor.
The fighting fish
An inhabitant of peat swamps, it grows to a length of 3.6 cm (1.4 in).
Wild bettas are small labyrinth fishes of peat swamps and forest pools in Southeast Asia, not the long-finned animals bred for tanks.
Gouramies and wild bettas breathe air with a labyrinth organ, so they can live in warm, oxygen-poor forest water.
Range and habitat
Blood Betta is a gourami endemic to Malaysia, where it is only found in the state of Selangor.
GBIF currently lists 19 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Blood Betta is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Betta livida — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q308190 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
