Krabi mouth-brooding betta

Appearance

The basic colour is yellowish-brown or greyish-brown with three faint longitudinal stripes. The gill-cover has a bluish-green patch and the fins have a blue iridescence. The pelvic fins are short and the anal fin long, with a dark margin.

The Krabi mouth-brooding betta is an oblong fish with rounded fins, growing to a length of about 8 cm (3 in).

Range and habitat

The Krabi mouth-brooding betta is a gourami endemic to Krabi Province, Thailand. It inhabits karst springs and wetlands, where it lives amongst vegetation close to the banks. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade and is taken from the wild for this purpose.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being "critically endangered" due to over-exploitation and the degradation of its restricted habitat by pollution and development of the surrounding land for farming. This species is also threatened by over-exploitation, with fish being collected for the aquarium trade and used locally as bait when fishing for eels. For these reasons, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the conservation status of this fish as being "critically endangered".

Krabi mouth-brooding betta is Critically 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 Krabi mouth-brooding betta, Wikidata item Q1090768. 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.