Black paradisefish

Black paradisefish
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Osphronemidae
Genus:	Macropodus
Species:	M. spechti
Binomial name
Macropodus spechti Schreitmüller, 1936
Synonyms
Macropodus opercularis spechti Schreitmüller, 1936 Macropodus opercularis concolor C. G. E. Ahl, 1936 Macropodus concolor C. G. E. Ahl, 1936

The black paradisefish (Macropodus spechti) is a species of gourami endemic to Vietnam. It is an inhabitant of hill streams, lowland streams, and irrigation ditches in farmland. This species grows to a length of 5.8 cm (2.3 in).^[2] It is found in the Thu Bon River and Perfume River; its habitat is hill streams, along backwaters of large rivers and small stream and irrigation channels on farmland. Aside from possibly being used as an ornamental fish, nothing else is known about the species.

References

1. Huckstorf, V. 2012. Macropodus spechti. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.>. Downloaded on 24 March 2014.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Macropodus spechti" in FishBase. February 2014 version.