Climbing Perch
Climbing perch may refer to: * Anabantidae, a family of fishes **'' Anabas testudineus'', an Anabantidae native to Asia **''Ctenopoma multispine ''Ctenopoma multispine'', known as the many-spined ctenopoma or climbing perch, is an African freshwater fish. It is up to long and occurs in the Lufira River, Lualaba River, Upemba River, Luapula-Moero in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Up ...

Anabas Testudineus
The climbing perch (''Anabas testudineus'') is a species of amphibious freshwater fish in the family Anabantidae (the climbing gouramis). A labyrinth fish native to Far Eastern Asia, the fish inhabits freshwater systems from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in the west, to Southern China and Japan in the east, and to Southeast Asia west of the Wallace Line in the south. It is likely that ''Anabas testudineus'' is a species complex, with the binomial name applied to what are actually several different species. With further study, populations of this fish may be divided up into separate species and given new names. The climbing perch is euryhaline and can grow to in total length. Outside its native ranges, it is an invasive species that can live without water for 6–10 hours and move on land by crawling/wriggling the body with its pectoral fins. It is believed that the fish may be invading new territories by slipping aboard fishing boats. The fish has been establi ...
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