Betta balunga

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: Betta balunga

Name

Betta balunga Herre, 1940

• Holotype: CAS-SU 33203

• Type locality: Tiny brook, tributary to the Balung River, 45 miles from Tawau, British North Borneo (=Sabah, Malaysia).

References

Primary references

• 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 No. 16: 27-61.
• Tan, H.H. & Ng, P.K.L., 2005. The fighting fishes (Teleostei: Osphronemidae: genus Betta) of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. 13: 43–99.

Additional references

• 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. 

Links

• Betta balunga – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Betta balunga in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on May 21, 2021.
• Betta balunga in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024, accessed on May 21, 2021.
• Betta balunga – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• IUCN: Betta balunga  (Data Deficient)
• Betta balunga in the World Register of Marine Species, accessed on May 21, 2021