Endangered
Parosphromenus paludicola
Parosphromenus paludicola
Parosphromenus paludicola is a gourami in the family Osphronemidae (order Perciformes), recorded as Endangered.
The gourami
The species reaches 3.7 cm (1.5 in) in total length and is known to be a facultative air-breather.
Range and habitat
It is native to Asia, where it ranges from the eastern Malay Peninsula northwards into southern Thailand. It is typically found in small creeks in swamp forests with a pH of less than 5.5 and a temperature between 25 and 27 °C (77 and 81 °F).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The species reproduces by laying eggs that sink to the substrate and are then collected by one or both parents and embedded in a bubble nest.
In crisis
Parosphromenus paludicola 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 Parosphromenus paludicola, Wikidata item Q5614311. 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.
