The licorice gourami (''Parosphromenus deissneri'') is a species of freshwater
ray-finned fish from the
subfamily
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Macropodusinae
The Macropodusinae are a subfamily of freshwater anabantiform fishes in the gourami family Osphronemidae, which includes the paradisefish, fighting fish and licorice gouramis. Like all members of the family, these are air breathing fishes ...
, part of the
family Osphronemidae, the
gouramis. It is
endemic to
Bangka in Indonesia where it is found in the slow, flowing streams with black waters associated with peat swamp forests.
This species was formally
described by the
Dutch ichthyologist
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Pieter Bleeker as ''Osphromenus deissneri'' in 1859 with the
type locality given as Sungai Baturussa basin at 8 kilometres from Pudingbesar on the road to Kampong Simpan, Bangka.
It is the
type species of the
genus ''Parosphromenus''.
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honours F. H. Deissner, a military health officer, who sent a collection of
specimens of fishes from Bangka to Bleeker which included the
type
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of this species.
References
Fish described in 1859
Licorice gourami
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