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Gouramis
Osphronemidae
Gouramis or gouramies /ɡʊˈrɑːmi/ are a group of freshwater perciform fishes that comprise the family, Osphronemidae. The fish are native to Asia, from Pakistan and India to the Malay Archipelago and north-easterly towards Korea. The name "gourami", of Japanese origin, is also used for fish of the families Helostomatidae and Anabantidae.
5 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 136 known species
Paradisefishes
subfamilyMacropodusinae
Trichogastrinae
subfamilyTrichogastrinae
Giant Gouramis
subfamilyOsphroneminae
Combtail Gouramis
subfamilyBelontiinae
Luciocephaline Gouramis
subfamilyLuciocephalinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 84690.