Betta livida

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 livida

Name

Betta livida Ng & Kottelat, 1992

• Holotype: ZRC 15287
• Paratypes: CMK 8032 (25), ZRC 14439 (1), 15209-15228 (20), 15254-15273 (20), 15288-15289 (2), 18836-18840 (5), 18851-18853 (3), 22764-22767 (4), 22768 (1), 22829 (1)
• Type locality: Blackwater stream, north Selangor peat swamp forest, 800 m from 45 km mark, on road from Tanjung Malim to Sungai Besar, Peninsula Malaysia.

References

Primary references

• Ng, P.K.L. and M. Kottelat, 1992. Betta livida, a new fighting fish (Teleostei: Belontiidae) from blackwater swamps in Peninsular Malaysia. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters v. 3 (no. 2): 177-182.
• Tan, H.H. and 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 livida – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Betta livida in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on April 24, 2020.
• Betta livida in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Betta livida – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• IUCN: Betta livida  (Endangered)
• Betta livida in the World Register of Marine Species