Endangered
Betta tomi
Betta tomi
Betta tomi is a fighting fish in the family Osphronemidae (order Perciformes), recorded as Endangered.
The fighting fish
This species grows to a length of 7 centimetres (2.8 in) SL.
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
Betta tomi is a gourami native to the Malaysian Peninsula where it is currently only found in Johor. It previously also occurred in Singapore but has since been extirpated there. It is an inhabitant of shallow streams that are shaded and have plenty of leaf litter and other debris.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Betta tomi 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 tomi — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q4847353. 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.
