Betta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anabantoidei
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Anabantaria Ordo: Anabantiformes Subordo: Anabantoidei

Familia: Osphronemidae
Subfamilia: Macropodusinae
Genus: Betta
Species (75): B. akarensis – B. albimarginata – B. anabatoides – B. antoni – B. apollon – B. aurigans – B. balunga – B. bellica – B. breviobesa – B. brownorum – B. burdigala – B. channoides – B. chini – B. chloropharynx – B. coccina – B. compuncta – B. cracens – B. dennisyongi – B. dimidiata – B. edithae – B. enisae – B. falx – B. ferox – B. foerschi – B. fusca – B. gladiator – B. hendra – B. hipposideros – B. ibanorum – B. ideii – B. imbellis – B. krataios – B. kuehnei – B. lehi – B. livida – B. macrostoma – B. mahachaiensis – B. mandor – B. midas – B. miniopinna – B. nuluhon – B. obscura – B. ocellata – B. omega – B. pallida – B. pallifina – B. pardalotos – B. patoti – B. persephone – B. pi – B. picta – B. pinguis – B. prima – B. pugnax – B. pulchra – B. raja – B. renata – B. rubra – B. rutilans – B. schalleri – B. siamorientalis – B. simorum – B. simplex – B. smaragdina – B. spilotogena – B. splendens – B. stigmosa – B. stiktos – B. strohi – B. taeniata – B. tomi – B. tussyae – B. uberis – B. unimaculata – B. waseri

Name

Betta Bleeker, 1850

Type species: Betta trifasciata Bleeker, 1850

Synonyms

Anostoma van Hasselt in Bleeker, 1859 [preoccupied by Anostoma Fischer von Waldheim, 1807]
Micracanthus Sauvage, 1879
Oshimia Jordan, 1919
Parophiocephalus Popta, 1905
Pseudobetta Richter, 1981

References

Bleeker, P., 1850. Bijdrage tot de kennis der Visschen met Doolhofvormige kieuwen van den Soenda-Molukschen Archipel. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 23 (8): 1–15.
Regan, C.T. 1910. The Asiatic fishes of the family Anabantidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1909(4): 767–787, Pls. 77–79. BHL Reference page.
Weber, M. & L. F. de Beaufort, 1922. The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. IV. Heteromi, Solenichthyes, Synentognathi, Percesoces, Labyrinthici, Microcyprini. E. J. Brill, Leiden. v. 4: i-xiii + 1-410. BHL
Herre, A. W. C. T., 1940. Additions to the fish fauna of Malaya and notes on rare or little known Malayan and Bornean fishes. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 16: 27–61.
Roberts, T.R., 1989. The freshwater fishes of western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia). Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences No. 14: i-xii + 1-210. BHL
Witte, K.-E. & Schmidt, J. 1992. Betta brownorum, a new species of anabantoids (Teleostei: Belontiidae) from northwestern Borneo, with a key to the genus. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 2(4): 305–330. Reference page.
Britz, R., 2001. The genus Betta -- monophyly and intrarelationships, with remarks on the subfamilies Macropodinae and Luciocephalinae (Teleostei: Osphronemidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters v. 12 (no. 4): 305-318.
Tan, H.H., 2009. Redescription of Betta anabatoides Bleeker, and a new species of Betta from West Kalimantan, Borneo (Teleostei: Osphronemidae). Zootaxa, 2165: 59–68. Abstract & excerpt
Schindler, I. & J. Schmidt, 2006. Review of the mouthbrooding Betta (Teleostei, Osphronemidae) from Thailand, with descriptions of two new species. Zeitschrift für Fischkunde v. 8 (no. 1/2): 47-69.
Kottelat, M. 2013. The fishes of the inland waters of southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibiography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 27: 1–663. PDF. Reference page.
Panijpan B., C. Kowasupat, P. Laosinchai, P. Ruenwongsa, A. Phongdara, S. Senapin, W. Wanna, K. Phiwsaiya, J. Kühne and F. Fasquel. 2014. Southeast Asian mouth-brooding Betta fighting fish (Teleostei: Perciformes) species and their phylogenetic relationships based on mitochondrial COI and nuclear ITS1 DNA sequences and analyses. Meta Gene 2: 862–879.

Links

Betta species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Betta – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Betta and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Betta – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Betta in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names

English: Fighting fish
svenska: Kampfiskar
ไทย: ปลากัด
українська: Бійцівська рибка